EcoCaffe Company is launching biodegradable coffee capsules from the Ethical Coffee Company in Australia.
The Ethical Coffee Company is a Swiss company that was established in 2008. It claims that because its coffee capsule is made from vegetable fibre and starch, the capsules can biodegrade after use within six months, rather than sit in landfill for over 500 years.
EcoCaffe, an Australian company with the exclusive distribution rights for Ethical Coffee Company products in Australia, claims that Australians are now consuming between 2.5 and 3 million plastic or aluminium coffee capsules per day which, in landfill terms, equates to an Olympic swimming pool worth of discarded capsules every two weeks.
