Recycle your coffee pods with Podback.

The Podback Scheme is now delivered directly by Podback. From 1st July 2025, the service offered by Podback has changed. This means that we will not collect your coffee pods from your property, but you will still be able to drop them off. Please see www.podback.org for more information.

Podback is a not-for-profit coffee pod recycling service. Created in partnership with the biggest names in coffee pod systems, Nespresso, NESCAFE Dolce Gusto and Tassimo, to give people who enjoy the quality and taste of coffee pods simple and easy ways to recycle them.

City of Wolverhampton Council is working with Podback to provide this pioneering new service, enabling you to easily recycle your coffee pods at either of our Household Waste Recycling Centres, which are open seven days a week.

It’s easy to get involved

You can recycle your coffee pods in three ways: 

  1. At the household waste and recycling centres
    • Collect and store your pods at home until you’re ready to take them to your nearest centre at Shaw Road or Anchor Lane. The Podback containers will be clearly signed.
  2. Podback also offer in-store drop off and a postal service for users of specific machines. Visit www.podback.org for more information.

What types of coffee pods can be recycled?  

Plastic and aluminium pods can be recycled using separate collection bags provided by Podback. Currently the following brands are supporting the scheme: Nespresso, NESCAFE Dolce Gusto, Starbucks by Nespresso, Starbucks by NESCAFE Dolce Gusto, Tassimo, L’OR, CRU Kafe, Artisan Coffee Co, Allpress Espresso, Colonna Coffee, Café Palmieri by Jomad Coffee and Pret a Manger. Together these brands represent over three quarters of the UK market. The ambition is to expand the programme to include all coffee pod brands that use plastic or aluminium pods in the UK.

Visit the Podback website to find out if your pods are accepted as part of this scheme.  

What happens to the pods?

The coffee pods you recycle with Podback are taken to specialist aluminium and plastics reprocessing plants in the UK. The coffee grounds are removed and the plastic and aluminium are then transformed into new products, including beverage cans, car components or plastic garden furniture and building products. The coffee grounds are used to create soil improver and renewable energy (biogas).

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