Commissione Europea: le capsule di caffè saranno imballaggi e trattate come tali (European Commission: Coffee capsules will be considered packaging and treated as such)

The European Commission realized that coffee grounds contain “valuable plant nutrients such as potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen which can be used to enrich the soil instead of being incinerated”. They are therefore a resource for the soil, also in an agricultural sense. Furthermore, in small round-shaped packaging there are "other precious secondary raw materials of which the capsules are made, such as aluminium", which can be useful for the industrial and production process. This is why “composting both the capsule and the material it contains would represent the most beneficial option for the environment”. And this is why, Virginius Sinkevicius, EU commissioner for the environment, further underlines, the proposed regulation on packaging and packaging waste includes "the requirement" that coffee capsules be compostable.