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Welcome to the next Generation of Nescafé Coffee Cups
These cups are 95% paper, lined with a unique coating that uses 50% less plastic.
And there’s even better news – they’re designed to be recyclable with standard paper (where local regulations allow it). Now you can serve cup after cup of delicious Nescafé knowing that we’re one step closer to our goal of zero plastic.
Nescafé is introducing the Next Generation of coffee cups, which are lined with a unique dispersion coating that uses 50% less plastic and are composed of 95% paper.
And there’s even better news – they’re designed to be processed and recycled with regular paper waste.
Your customers are looking for a quick delicious cup of Nescafé, but they’re also concerned about how long the plastic in their cup will hang around in the environment. So are we – and our solution has taken 10 years of hard work and innovation.
The problem
The problem recyclers have traditionally faced is that you can’t put disposable cups lined with polyethylene (PE) film in a standard paper recycling machine –the PE would gum up its works quickly.
Our Next Generation cups feature a unique new dispersion coating that is designed to dissolve easily, so they can be processed in paper recycling machines along with normal paper waste (depending on local regulations, of course). Our Next Generation cups will have 50% less plastic and are natural white paper – we’ve eliminated as much dye as we can, so at least 95% of the paper is ready to be recycled, with a minimum amount of ink.
10 years of development
You won’t be able to tell the difference from a standard disposable cup – and you won’t believe the 10 years of development and commitment it’s taken to get here.
The story started when a small company in Finland came to us with the idea for the technology. After years of trials and testing, in 2018 some of our larger suppliers eventually perfected the dispersion coating technology.
Of course, coffee lovers’ health and safety is our number one priority, so at the Nestlé Institute of Packaging in Switzerland, our scientists have collaborated with suppliers to ensure the new cups are perfectly safe to drink from.