• Geek_King@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s a small plastic cup full of ground coffee, Kuerig machines use them. They generated a ton of plastic waste, since each k-cup was a single use.

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        6 months ago

        And so is every Coke bottle with 5 times the plastic. And so is every store-bought coffee. Yet… silence. 🦗🦗🦗

        What about bottles? Far more energy requires to melt and pour glass. No one says a word about single use.

        Never found a K-cup on the beach or trail, but I pack plastic bags to haul trash and sometimes load 2 or 3.

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          6 months ago

          Yet… silence.

          Imagine never reading any news or discussions about environmental impact, but coming in here trying to defend Keurig by doing full whataboutism.

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        There was great progress in compostable K-Cups from other vendors. And then Keurig did the DRM thing with the UV ink. So they literally made everything worse trying to keep their market reach.

        I threw mine out and went back to a french press. Straight into compost, and the coffee tastes better.