Coffee Roasters who choose to offer plastic free, Certified BPI Compostable packaging as a business can be assured that they’re aligning with the compostable packaging value chain by choosing an experienced coffee manufacturing partner.

If your business is considering adding additional coffee product SKUs to your coffee offering on your path to retail, it’s important to consider the series of coordinated efforts that your company, and various stakeholders involved in the product lifecycle must be considering for the compostable product lifecycle to work effectively.

The Compostable Products Value Chain, and Why It’s Important to Your Coffee Business

What is the Compostable Products Value Chain?

The Compostable Products Value Chain refers to the entire lifecycle of compostable products, from raw material to end-of-life disposal. This chain includes five key stages:

Raw Material Production for Compostable Products and Packaging

Products and packaging must be created from compostable materials and renewable materials. When your business incorporates compostable packaging into your coffee product lineup, you’ll need to ensure that your coffee manufacturing partner is using Certified BPI Compostable packaging that is made from industrially compostable materials. At Pod Pack, we are an industrial coffee manufacturer that is licensed to provide BPI Compostable Keurig ® Compatible coffee capsules to our B2B customers.¹

Compostable Packaging Manufacturing

The materials used for your compostable coffee packaging must be converted into compostable materials and coffee packaging before it can be used to roast and pack your coffee products. Once you have identified a coffee manufacturer who is licensed to provide Certified BPI Compostable packaging for your coffee product, your coffee manufacturing partner will work on your company’s behalf to ensure that the compostable materials for your single-serve coffee product is manufactured to the standards upheld by the Biodegradable Products Institute.

Compostable Packaging Distribution

Knowing where to find Certified BPI Compostable, single-serve coffee packaging may not be straightforward. When you work with a coffee manufacturing partner, they’ve taken care of the hard part. As a licensed compostable coffee packaging company, Pod Pack can eliminate the need for your company to worry about the supply chain and distribution hurdles that can come with adding a new compostable coffee packaging SKU to your coffee product offering.

Using Single-Serve Compostable Coffee Capsules

Businesses that provide Certified BPI Compostable, single-serve coffee packaging options to their customers are getting ahead of fees and legislative requirements, that have been enacted in several states already. Not only will your business attract customers who expect a compostable single-serve coffee option, your business can become the best compostable single-serve coffee provider in your state when legislation affects how you do business. Whatever your business specializes in roasted coffee, working with a coffee manufacturing partner, like Pod Pack, will enable your company to easily add a compostable coffee SKU to your product lineup, helping you to scale your product offering.

Disposing of Single-Serve Compostable Coffee Capsules

Consumers and businesses must properly dispose of compostable products using commercial composting facilities where single-serve coffee packaging can be broken down into soil. Established coffee businesses must work in collaboration with their coffee manufacturer to ensure that the compostable product value chain works, and that single-serve coffee packaging makes it from the consumer to the commercial composter.

Compostable Packaging Legislation

The states that currently have legislation banning food waste from landfills are Texas, Colorado, California, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Specifically, the cities of Austin, Boulder, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York City, Portland. For example, municipal-level food waste legislation in the Unites States requires that Austin, Texas divert food waste and other organic materials, including compostable packaging, from landfills by composting.

Pod Pack can assist with labeling guidelines with BPI and specific municipalities requirements.

Looking to add commercially compostable, BPI Certified Keurig® Compatible capsules to your product lineup?

1 - Licensing: made under license from Smile Beverage Werks PBC
2 - Kachook, Olga, Director at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Legislation Banning Food Waste from Landfills