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Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable (www.techradar.com)

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This is quite exciting in that it removes plastic waste. I see no reason why different companies can't make different shape ones to maintain their lock-in. I expect a knock-off market to pop-up, but that exists with plastic pods too. It's a step in the right direction at least.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was surprised to learn that the store brand k-cups around here are already fully compostable. It’s just a biodegradable plastic ring with half a sphere of coffee filter on the bottom and a paper disc on top.

[–] unreasonabro 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

i imagine "biodegradable" plastics are the things that we're finding down in deep sediment layers where they shouldn't be; the ones that aren't biodegradable don't fall apart hard enough to hitch rides in water droplets.

I'd bet millions of dollars on the proposition that we don't know the answer to that question yet, if I had it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

That has always been my issue with the K cup. It isn't recyclable and isn't biodegradable.

I want a pod I can throw in the mulch.

[–] brlemworld 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It isn't recyclable...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Typo. Corrected. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I solved this problem by not drinking coffee. I know, it's blasphemy I don't need daily caffeine to function.

Edit: I feel like the people downvoting this have muttered the words "I can't start my day without coffee" and least once in their life.

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[–] cosmicrookie -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Coffee will never be sustainable. We will all keep drinking it but this is just a feel good movement of making something slightly less bad than it used to be.

[–] spez_ 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Coffee is slavery (true)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

You can have coffee without slavery, but you can't have slavery without coffee.

🇺🇸🏃DD

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