Local recycling stations - household goods

Ever since I started doing this blog, I've developed a habit of looking for ways to recycle other types of household goods that doesn't belong in the typical household bins e.g. Paper, aluminum, plastic goods. Throughout the month, I've noted some recycling station in my local area.

Coffee capsule from Nespresso
Every time my family uses the coffee capsule, we keep them in a dedicated recycling bag so we can bring it to the closest Nespresso store to drop them off at the recycling station. The brand has a recycling program for these used capsules where the aluminum used to make the packaging will be recycled by shredding and melting down and turned into new aluminum products.  The grounded coffee is separated, sent to an industrial composting facility and to will be used for fertilizers. I'm curious to where these aluminum and coffee will be sold and processed locally?  On a different note, the Nespresso website has indicated that "Today we are able to retrieve 80% of all capsules sold". In addition, in 2013, Nespresso has formed a partnership with international recycling company TerraCycle. 

Cartridges Ink and Mobile Phone Recycling
In my local OfficeWorks, just outside the store entry, there are a few recycling station dedicated for cartridges ink and mobile phone phone and accessories recycling. These used goods get picked up by Planet Ark and distributed to Close the Loop. Some of the environmental benefits of recycling cartridges includes

• Diverting waste from landfill
• recovering resources - the materials gets reprocessed & recycled by recovering plastics, metals and inks that can be used to make new products i.e pens, rulers, eWood
• Saving water and energy - in most cases, making products from recycled materials requires less water and energy compared to using new materials
• Help in reducing greenhouse gases 

Reference:
https://www.nespresso.com/ecolaboration/au/en/article/2/2910/introducing-nespresso-s-capsule-recycling-program-in-australia.html
http://www.terracycle.com.au/en-AU/brigades/nespresso-coffee-capsule-brigade
http://cartridges.planetark.org/documents/doc-487-cartridge-factsheet.pdf