how do coffee pods recycling work?

Question

My office has a big bin for recycling coffee pods (van houtte, keurig…) wondering how they get recycled? Thanks

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Answer 1

We use the [kcycle](https://keurigkcycle.com) program at our facility. According to them they separate out the components. The plastic and aluminum get recycled and the grounds become compost.

I can believe the aluminum and grounds are recycled, the plastic as with most plastics are probably tossed or burned in an incinerator, which sucks but unless we trace where they send the plastic we will never know.

In total since 2018 till now we have recycled ~200,000 pods.

Edit: at our facility we have recycled 200,000 pods.
As for the kcycle program I’m not sure on that data.