4WKS: Fresh Compostable Coffee Pods

For self-confessed coffee snobs, brothers and first cousins, and co-founders of 4WKS, Daniel, Oliver, and Lulu – who come from a tight-knit family of French Mauritian descent – coffee has always been a consistent thread throughout their lives, having shared some of their most memorable moments and greatest ideas over a delicious flat white.

Having been raised on farms, these passionate coffee connoisseurs share an equally deep love for nature and the environment as they do for coffee. Combining their two passions with their resolute belief in business as a force of good, they started an inspired movement and eco-conscious, sustainable, zero-waste company that is part of the global and societal shift of the future – A better, kinder future for both people and the planet – and so, 4WKS came to be!

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While also recognizing the brilliance of Nespresso™ machines and the need for great coffee at the push of a button, they were made acutely aware of two things. Firstly, the unsustainability of plastic and aluminium single-use coffee capsules which, in 2018 alone, resulted in 56 billion capsules landing in landfills – where they’ll remain for 450-500 years (shocking, isn’t it?!). Secondly, they took on the task of challenging the coffee inside the capsules (also known as pods) and why they’re largely imported, mass-produced, and have a shelf-life of 18 months – when the best coffee should be consumed fresh.

They wanted to make the best, local, micro-roasted coffee – which they themselves love – available to people at home, the office, or on holiday with a pod that, freshly-packed, tastes delicious and is home compostable and does absolutely no harm to the environment.