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What To Do With Single-Brew Coffee Cups
Keurig’s K-Cup system, the single-cup coffee brewer, boasts some impressive numbers: 2.5 million cups per day in North America, 2 billion cups since 1998 and six percent of the coffee brewed in North American offices.
While the convenience and individuality of the machine is considerable, there remains the little problem of disposal. If 2.5 million cups of Keurig coffee are brewed each day, that means that 2.5 million plastic K-Cups are bound for the trash daily.
On Social Responsibility section of Keurig’s website, the company says that due to the mix of plastic, polyethylene-coated foil and filters – not to mention heat-sealing … read more
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