Taking the hassle out of refills
DO you do a ‘George Clooney’ when you get into the office, dropping a capsule into a Nespresso machine to get your morning coffee hit? They may be convenient, but capsule coffee creates a huge amount of waste. Each year, some 20 billion individual coffee capsules are used and discarded worldwide.
Two French engineering students and handymen, Thibaut de Louvet and Jean de Boisredon, set about thinking of ways to tackle the problem. “We love designing and building things: Thibaut has already built an electric skateboard and a milling machine. For my part, I got into repairing mopeds and designing [other things]. When we got to engineering school, we started thinking together about the case of coffee capsules, which are both disastrous for the environment and expensive for students to buy. We looked at how to go about solving those two problems,” de Boisredon told ETX Studio.
The pair came to the conclusion that pollution created by waste capsules could be easily reduced by opting for a reusable model. This led them to design Caps Me, a system of reusable, zero-waste capsules that work similarly to those made by the famous Nespresso brand.
Here, the difference is that consumers fill capsules themselves by inserting them into a specially designed coffee container which loads the capsules with coffee. Users then add a seal to the capsule before dropping it into their coffee machine. .
While the idea isn’t new, Caps Me promises highly competitive pricing for “equivalent quality of coffee”. – AFP-Relaxnews