A recent CBC Marketplace episode reported misleading and erroneous information on compostable coffee pods. Here are the FACTS: Our plant-based compostable coffee pods thoroughly break down in the most common municipal composting technologies in North America (aerobic and anaerobic pre-processing). Our compostable coffee pods have been successfully tested in many Canadian municipalities, including the City…
Tag: Single-Use Plastic
Single-use plastic pollution must consider all stakeholders
The Canadian government recently announced it would be tackling the global pollution crisis with bans on single-use plastics. The details of the Canadian plan remain to be seen, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would follow the lead of the European Union with their vote to ban items that often end up littered in…
Tackling the Single-Use Plastics Crisis One Compostable Coffee Pod at a Time
Read the FULL text below —————- Published in: National Post Circular Economy Special Insert —————- Single-use plastics are now seen as a global crisis. Less than 10 percent of them are recycled. The rest are sent to landfills, dumped into lakes and oceans, burned for energy with its own environmental implications, or shipped to…