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Home Coffee Maker Sustainability

I’ve started cleaning my coffee pods and recycling them at a Nespresso drop-off point.I felt guilty using my Nespresso machine – I knew that I wouldn’t be able to wittingly continue as I was. I researched recycling methods and found that Nespresso would take their used pods and ethically dispose of them.

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Brian made a simple easy switch

I gave up cows milk 2 years ago and switched to Irish-made (Flahavans) oat milk. I still eat cheese and eggs, it’s just the milk in my teas and coffees I swapped. I worked out that I’ve saved 624kg in carbon emissions from the switch. That’s the same as planting 45 trees. That’s from making an unnoticeable change in habits.

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