Asia-Pacific Sustainability Action Awards-Sustainability Action Awards SDG12:Silver
Nestlé Taiwan LTD.
Nestlé Coffee Black Gold Circular Economy Action
As Taiwan’s coffee market rapidly expands, waste from capsules, filter bags, and flexible packaging has become a major sustainability challenge for the food and beverage industry. Building on its purpose of “unlocking the power of food,” Nestlé Taiwan launched the Nestlé Coffee Black Gold Circular Economy Action, guided by the local BEST strategy and 5R packaging principles. Through its three coffee brands—Nespresso, Nescafé, and NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto—the project applies a three stage circular model: responsible coffee sourcing and regenerative agriculture upstream; mono-material packaging and recycling network expansion midstream; and resource reuse solutions for aluminum, filter materials, and coffee grounds downstream. This approach not only strengthens origin resilience through sustainable quality programs and regenerative farming, but also tailors packaging design to Taiwan’s recycling system, expands collection networks, and turns recovered materials into lifestyle products and agricultural inputs. In doing so, it translates global sustainability commitments into a locally executable, measurable, and highly replicable circular coffee model for Taiwan.