Issue No.19 - Polo De'Marco Magazine Issue No.19 | Page 49

However, Nespresso is dedicated to make their project a reality –not least – because it’s enthusiastic about offering its consumers a new product. The opportunity to taste something exciting and new. Plus, it is a risky project as well. Nonetheless, it’s one, which has excellent positive impacts on the region. South Sudan is extremely dependent on foreign and oil aid, and coffee would be its very first major agricultural export. It will offer security and income for thousands of farmers and their families. Nespresso is dedicated to making sure that every one of its capsules could be recycled. That’s why it offers three various recycling options in the United States. It includes five hundred collection points across the region at drop-off locations at selected retail partners and Nespresso Boutiques. Apart from that, a UPS mail back program offers prepaid recycling bags for individuals to mail back their used capsules. They could mail them off at one of their 88,000 UPS drop off locations within the region. On the contrary, Nestle is considering as well to source Fairtrade-certified coffee from other seven thousand small-scale farmers located in Colombia. It might be that Nespresso is motivated to contribute to a Fairtrade fund. It appears that later on, there will be a Fairtrade-branded Nespresso good. https://www.nespresso.com