Collector of beverage machine with waste management

A combination of a machine for handling a flavouring ingredient and preparing a beverage therefrom and serving said beverage via a dispensing outlet to a consumer receptacle, said ingredient with water from a water source that comprises:

• a support, such as a frame and/or housing, that is stationary during said handling of said flavouring ingredient and optionally during beverage preparation and/or beverage serving;
• a seat, such as a seat delimiting a substantially prismatic or cylindrical inner shape having a base having an ingredient opening;
• a closure part, for instance fixed to or integral with the seat or configured to close and open the ingredient opening of the seat, such as a closure part configured to form a lid on the opening;
• a wall part that is movable relatively to the seat;
• and
• a waste collector, the collector delimiting a collecting chamber extending upright over a collecting height and horizontally over a collecting area, the collecting height corresponding for instance to a distance in the range of 75 to 125% of a vertical spacing between a bottom of the chamber and a top end of the waste collector, a detector configured for preventing further preparation of beverage until the collector has been emptied and/or generating an alarm signal that is user-perceivable,
• the seat, the closure part and the wall part being:
• directly or indirectly mounted to the support;
• and
• relatively movable between:
• at least one transfer configuration for:
• supplying before beverage preparation said flavouring ingredient with or without an ingredient capsule into the seat;
• and/or
• removing upon beverage preparation a waste consumable formed by waste flavouring ingredient and/or an ingredient capsule;
• and
• a mixing chamber configuration in which the seat and the closure part and the wall part form a mixing chamber fluidically connected with the water source,
• the mixing unit being configured such that during beverage preparation, said flavouring ingredient is mixed with said water in the mixing chamber to form said beverage, e.g. by infusion and/or dissolution and/or dispersion, prior to serving thereof via the dispensing outlet,
• the mixing unit comprising a removal arrangement configured to direct after mixing, said waste consumable into the waste collector,
• the removal arrangement and the waste collector are configured so as to direct successive removals of such waste consumables to different horizontal locations of the collecting area and said flavouring ingredient for preparing said beverage in the machine.