{"id":17375,"date":"2018-10-16T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=17375"},"modified":"2018-10-15T21:58:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:58:37","slug":"compostable-coffee-capsule-made-from-sunflower-husk-fibres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/kompostierbare-kaffeekapsel-aus-fasern-der-sonnenblumenschale\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee capsules for the compost heap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coffee capsules for portion coffee machines are still very popular. However, with every used capsule - as with all other portion containers - valuable materials end up in household waste.<\/p>\n

There are numerous endeavours to use more renewable raw materials and recycled materials for beverage packaging. In the packaging journal<\/strong> At the beginning of the year, we reported on the development of self-dissolving milk capsules made from sugar<\/a> at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. The Austrian packaging manufacturer Alpla<\/strong> has now introduced coffee capsules that can be used at home after use. Compost<\/strong> can be utilised.<\/p>\n

The special feature of what the company claims to be the world's first home compostable coffee capsules<\/strong> is the material \u201eGolden Compound green\u201c, writes Alpla. This bio-based plastic<\/strong> contain ground Natural fibres of the sunflower husk<\/strong>. The capsule and filter fleece are therefore completely degradable in garden compost within six months. The cover film is also compostable.<\/p>

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Bio-material comparable to conventional plastics<\/h2>\n

The sunflower material from Golden Compound<\/strong> is a by-product of the food industry. The Oxygen barrier<\/strong> is comparable with conventional plastics such as PP-EVOH-PP. Alpla states that the oxygen permeability is 0.0021 cubic centimetres per capsule per day at a pressure of 0.21 bar. Compostability has been certified by T\u00fcV Austria Belgium.<\/p>\n

Alpla and Golden Compound have already found a first user for the compostable coffee capsules. Amann Coffee<\/strong> from Vorarlberg\/Austria has already adopted the new development for its products. The capsules fit into all current Nespresso machines.<\/p>\n

Golden Compound will be presenting its new \u201eGolden Compound green\u201c material for compostable coffee capsules from 16 October at the industry trade fair Fakuma<\/strong> in Friedrichshafen.<\/p>\n

Golden Compound at the Fakuma 2018: Hall B4, Stand 4114<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpla and Golden Compound have developed a compostable coffee capsule for Nespresso machines. It consists of natural fibres from sunflower husks.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,113],"tags":[65,6606,48,31,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-17375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-messen-und-veranstaltungen","8":"category-produkte","9":"tag-abfalltechnik-und-recycling","10":"tag-fakuma","11":"tag-getraenke","12":"tag-nachhaltigkeit-und-green-packaging","13":"tag-veranstaltungen","14":"cs-entry","15":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}