BBC News - City of Hamburg Bans Nespresso Pods

In February 2016 the BBC ran a piece called:

Is there a serious problem with coffee capsules?

"The German city of Hamburg has banned coffee pods from state-run buildings as part of an environmental drive to reduce waste. "  Looking at their so-called green procurement policy " the German city of Hamburg last month introduced a ban on buying "certain polluting products or product components" with council money. The ban includes specific terms for "equipment for hot drinks in which portion packaging is used" - specifically singling out the "Kaffeekapselmaschine", or coffee capsule machine, which accounts for one in eight coffees sold in Germany."

The problem is not that the individual components within a coffee capsules cannot be recycled, its that mixed together they are difficult, expensive and time consuming to separate and are therefore a expensive contaminate to the recycling system.

Nespresso do not apparently give figures on the amount of returned pods that are recycled and how many are dumped, often people think that because Nespresso has a collection service for old pods that these are all being recycled ethically and re-used.

This is why I decided to investigate this myself and to work out a method to enable me to recycle any of the Aluminium capsules I use which a often the Nespresso brand, as other use plastic pods.

The instructions in my video show how to quickly separate the components in their recyclable parts so that you can drink great coffee but not add to the problem.

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Leaving the recycling to the manufacturer merely passes the buck and clears the conscience if you believe they are ethically disposing of them.  But lets face it, big business isn't renowned for its willingness to use 'profit' to help the environment when there are cheaper options.  Shareholders aren't pleased to be told their dividend was spent clearing the waste ;-)  But read the article yourself.

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How To Enviromentally Recycle Foil Coffee Capsule Pods

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The Nespresso Coffee Machine has heralded in the mass use of the one-off quick use Capsule And Pod coffee making and drinking.

People have wrongly assumed that these COFFEE CAPSULES and PODS are recyclable.  Sadly this is not the case due to their mix of metal and organic matter.  But for those that care about the environment but want to drink their lovely fresh coffee, this is how fixed1t recycles them! #fixed1tENVIROMENTALtips

I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it:

Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist

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Quartz Clock Repair Videos by fixed1t

Due to the successful Quartz Clock Module repairs completed by none subscribed viewers I've decided to create a new Quartz Clock Fix playlist, If you have watched the videos and have broken clocks with Quartz Modules in them in your house, then its time to watch. If you also have kids that want to do something clever and practical here's a great task for them #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips

Improving Re-usable Re-fillable Nespresso Capsule Flavour

Improving Re-usable Re-fillable Nespresso Capsule Flavour Through Capsule Modification

I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it:

Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist

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Amazing FREE $179 Analog Synth Plugin with an excellent WAVES $49 Metafilter Purchase

Here is a screenshot of an offer I received from waves plugins today:

Its so amazing, I've created an account and just bought the excellent plugin and got $179 of Analog Synth Plugin for free.  They gave me a link for friends and watchers to get a discount on plugins.

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Saving Over £150 Replacing GoKart Electric Golf Trolley Lithium Battery

My partner Debbie has had her GoKart Golf Trolley for a couple of years and recently the battery charger started refusing to charge the battery.  After various attempts to charge it proved only moderately successful she decided to invest in a new battery.

Visiting the GoKart site, she discovered their 18 hole Lithium Batteries were over £199 UK and I therefore had a hunt around eBay etc.  We found a suitable battery, but the Battery Case is actually an integral part of the GoKart Trolley without the Battery Caddy it flops about.

So I set about working out how to replace the original Lithium Battery in the original Caddy with the purchase OEM battery she obtained from a company on eBay for just over £65, a huge saving by any standards.

This video is about Saving Over £150 Replacing GoKart Electric Golf Trolley Lithium Battery by purchasing and refitting an OEM Lithium Battery and charger.

This shows you the step by step method I used to replace the GoKart Lithium battery with an OEM Lithium Battery purchased off eBay for just over £65.  The manufactures battery is over £199.

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If you need to replace the battery I have put a link below to find the one I used.

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Why AA Rechargeable Batteries Don't Work In Some Devices - Part 3

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In this video I insert a pair of MAPLINS rechargeable batteries into an Apple Mouse to see if they are capable of powering the Apple Mouse.

In Part 4 I will test another pair of rechargeable batteries in the Apple Mouse, to test my theory that:  "the size of the battery and the tips dictates whether the rechargeable AA batteries will work as a substitute as an alkaline substitute"  #fixed1tRESEARCH #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips