another ton of useless plastic cups killing who knows what...what a shitload of a cross-promo this is...

https://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/amount-k-cups-have-been-thrown-landfills-co...


While recycling is important, only a mere one third of major recycling programs accept this kind of plastic. The K-Cups that don’t get recycled will take thousands of years to decompose in a landfill and will contribute to our growing problem of plastic pollution.

Worst of all, as Keurig tries to live up to its motto to “brew a better world”, their short term environmental solution is to incinerate K-Cups! Through their Grounds to Grow On program they encourage their customers to mail their empty K-Cups back to Keurig where the plastic pods and aluminum tops are burned in energy incinerators. Incinerating trash is known to waste lots of energy and to put harmful, cancer causing toxins into our air, water, and soil. The best way to address these problems is to use existing technology to make K-Cups reusable or compostable instead.