This week we’re going to take a look at the humble coffee bag.
I’ve been searching for a fully recyclable bag which has all of the elements needed to both store your coffee in the manner to which it should be accustomed and be sturdy enough to arrive at your place of residence undamaged. It turns out that this is not an easy task. The natural kraft bags which I’ve been using and which are common across the industry are, in fact, relatively difficult to recycle. This is because they have a number of different layers (the two main layers being the kraft paper layer and an inner aluminium layer) and are therefore classified as composite packaging which is not readily recyclable. There is one service which can take composite packaging, separate the layers and then recycle the components and this service is TerraCycle (https://www.terracycle.com/en-AU/).