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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.
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.
Connected Launched
Community Project supported by Pobal launches in Ballina, Co Mayo. This project seeks to build an...


