Sunday, January 1, 2012

K-cups Versus Recycling


K-cups are wonderful.

They make good coffee. Quickly, without a mess. They are easy to store.

Unfortunately...

They don't recycle.

The cup is a non-recyclable plastic. The coffee inside doesn't recycle. The aluminum foil lid does, but that is all.

Once again we gain convenience while draining the resources of the world.

However...

Let's insist on having K-cups we can compost. Of course, the coffee inside the K-cup is already compostable. If the cup itself, and the lid, were made of compostable material, we could throw the whole thing into a compost pile and make something useful of it.

I am sending a letter to coffee companies and to K-cup manufacturers and fillers.

Americans, unite, rise up, insist on compostable K-cups!

PS: My spell-checker does not include compostable or compostible. Suggestions?

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