Theyre a great convenience, as I happily made use of one during the Thanksgiving holiday--guests can serve themselves, without the bother of a big coffee ritual in a house where making a daily pot isnt part of the routine. Personally, Ill stick to my little Aeropress habit, with its simple process, cleanup and lack of waste-guilt for the 2 paper filter. Theyre so small that I even have a spare in my truck for travel. The sheer volume of pod waste is staggering. As Murray Carpenter notes in his book Caffeinated, the K-cups discarded in 2011 would have encircled the globe more than six times, and in 2013, more than 10 times. Across the coffee pod industry, hundreds of millions of pounds of unrecyclable trash are now being made, used, and then tossed away each year in the US.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:00:02 +0000