Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable
Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable
K-Rounds are virtually nothing but coffee
This is quite exciting in that it removes plastic waste. I see no reason why different companies can't make different shape ones to maintain their lock-in. I expect a knock-off market to pop-up, but that exists with plastic pods too. It's a step in the right direction at least.
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“Sustainable”
Coffee can, single piece of packaging for months on end.
Vs.
K-cups, paper, dyes, increased packaging volumes, increased energy in production, increased raw materials, 6 month shelf life = increased trips to the store to purchase more. Sustainable /s
If you're playing that game, you don't need any coffee at all, so none of it is sustainable.
I mean, it's a plant. You can grow it, and plenty of it is grown. It is objectively more sustainable than, say, coal or helium.
Please dont't brew up coal or helium for breakfast.
But how will I make squeaky talk while enjoying my deep fried coal?
A Welshman and a Scotsman meet on a blimp and devise the stupidest idea for a gastropub...
I'm in!
How does the coffee get from where it's grown and into the can? Where does the space to grow it come from?
Also, what are you talking about? Helium's uses are largely medical, which is pretty far up there on the list of things we can't do without.
Also, so what? These new coffee pods are also more sustainable than both helium and coal when you use whatever definition of sustainability you're using
Fresh account and hardcore supporting an obvious marketing “news” article. Hmm…
Me: no coffee is environmentally sustainable or a necessity
You: damn they must be shilling for big coffee
Also you realise the fediverse isn't large enough to justify marketing on, right?
My highest rated comment is literally condoning videogame piracy. Did you think that accusation through at all? I'm honestly baffled.
Huh? Your response doesn't make sense. Were you intentionally ignoring the point of the op: coffee is more sustainable than non-renewable resources?
That's like saying sunshine is free and then somebody trying to argue against that point but criticizing the price of sunscreen ...
Yes because it doesn't make any sense. Not only is the coffee industry not really all that sustainable, it's completely meaningless to compare two types of resource in entirely different categories.
It doesn't matter how "unsustainable" a medically necessary resource like helium is in comparison to literally any amount of environmental or social damage caused by the persuit of a luxury good.
Also, as a rebuttal to a rebuttal to the idea that canned coffee is still better it doesn't make any sense, because the logic that "coal isn't sustainable" could justify literally any amount of ecological damage in the coffee supply chain, thereby justifying the pods. You could chop down and burn a tree for every sack of coffee you fill, for fun, and it still probably wouldn't be as unsustainable as coal.
Ok. You don't understand what sustainable means. Got it.
"coal exists, so coffee is sustainable, but not coffee in pod form" is legitimately one of the dumbest things I've read on this site, so I'm just surprised you're hitching your wagon to that post
You can literally just eat coffee beans and they are actually pretty good.