Sentences with phrase «plastic coffee pods»

If you like the simplicity of single - serving plastic coffee pods, but your clientele might appreciate something a bit more refined than plain old coffee, you could get a Nespresso machine, instead.

K - Cups are single - serving plastic coffee pods.

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE — Layfette Journal & Courier 3:42 p.m. EDT April 23, 2015 Chris Morisse Vizza and Chris Morisse Vizza, [email protected] Copper Moon Coffee wants to reduce the proliferation of plastic single - serve brewing pods dumped in landfills, president Cary Gutwein said.

Our innovation answered consumer concerns about wasteful plastic single serve pods with a product that delivers real «filter - brewed» coffee and tea, without the plastic cup.

The environmental repercussions of using the K - Cups are enormous because of the amount of plastic waste coming from coffee pods.

The Lafayette - based coffee roasting company celebrated Earth Day with an announcement that it will begin packaging its single - serve products in compostable plastic single - serve pods.

So we're going to explain just what happens in your Keurig to turn those plastic pods into a reliable cup of coffee.

«If we can get just 1 % of coffee drinkers to replace their plastic cup solutions with the high - quality coffee in our Tayst pods, we could reduce waste and divert up to 100 million pods away from landfills,» challenges Byrnes.

Currently, plastic, single serve coffee pods are included in this disposable waste stream.

The cool thing about them is that instead of using the traditional plastic K - cup, the pods are made using plant - based coffee filter.

An MPP's call for a province - wide ban on all non-compostable coffee pods could give a jolt to the industry behind the ubiquitous single - use plastic cups, with one manufacturer saying recycling is the better way to tackle the waste.

I included a few small toys, various textures of rubber, plastic and wood, a few rinsed out coffee pod cups, a cut up egg carton, and small spoons and scoops.

Endocrine - disrupting plastic chemicals from the pods can end up in the finished coffee, and these plastics have been linked to various health problems.

Even the highest quality single - sourced organic coffees don't usually cost this much, and many of us pay that for low - grade, plastic and aluminum coated, environment wrecking pods!

To be fair, Green Mountain (who owns Keurig) announced plans to make their coffee pods recyclable by 2020, but that still means billions more plastic cups will enter the landfills in the next five years, and even if / when they are recyclable, many people won't recycle them.

Coffee pods generate massive amounts of plastic waste each year.

However, some types / brands of coffee pods (and other difficult - to - recycle items) are collected by a company called TerraCycle who recycle them to create new products such as plastic baby bibs, notebook covers and park benches.

Yes, coffee pods are made of recyclable materials (the plastic shell, the paper filter and the aluminum) but recycling plants don't hire staff to pull these materials apart and put them in the appropriate bins.

A lot of Aluminum is recycled, particularly beverage cans where 67 percent of it is recovered, but a lot of it is not; it is often bound to plastic in packaging (tetra packs, coffee pods and condiment packages); Heinz alone makes 11 billion little ketchup pouches every year.