People love convenience. It’s not surprising that the recently invented, mess free single use, single serving coffee pod has been taking over the world. I am not a big fan and I don’t have much personal experience with K-Cups. I was curious to hear from readers about whether they have this new convenience in their workplaces.
Green Mountain Coffee company recently told their investors they project selling 3 billion k-cups next year! The “Green” minded company was also embarrased to admit the “single-use” coffee model is environmentally wasteful
Above is a quote from KBrewLids.com, a company that sells foil lids designed to allow for reuse of the popular K-cups, or Keurig Coffee Pods. They say that the ostensibly single use pod can actually be used ten times.
Reuse is, of course, the second best of the three R’s. Reducing is always better. If you don’t use K-cups, don’t start. There are plenty of plastic free ways to brew coffee. My favorite way is with a French Press.
If your workplace has made the switch to k-cups, you can still avoid the single use sacrilege by using reusable filter that is designed to fit in the Keurig brewer.
