Keurig tricks or tips

[Anonymous]

Which jurisdiction recycles them? They are a paper plastic mix, so I know MoCo won't recycle them. I'm a big Keurig user too. So I'm not judging.

But honestly,when you look at the entire life cycle of getting coffee in your hand, it's horribly environmentally unfriendly, and most of that is how coffee is grown. It wipes out whole forests. So NO coffee drinker should be sitting in judgment. Buy fair trade, rain forest certified, and to some extent organic, if you "truly" care about the environmental impact of drinking coffee. What happens to k cups is the least of the planet's problems.

[Anonymous]

I empty the used coffee grounds out if the K-cup and use them in my garden. The K-cup then gets rinsed and recycled. Not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

"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 all these elements together - makes these little cups very difficult to recycle."

http://earth911.com/news/2011/03/17/what-to-do-with-single-brew-coffee-cups/

[Anonymous]

The manufacturing requirements of the K-Cup® pack currently make recycling difficult. The K-Cup® pack is made up of three main elements: the cup itself, a filter and an aluminum foil top. The pack's components prevent oxygen, light and moisture from degrading the coffee. Without the barrier the packaging materials provide, we could not maintain quality or freshness. However, we are actively working to meet the challenge of creating a pack that reduces environmental impact and continues to deliver an extraordinary cup of coffee.

The K-Cup® and Vue® brewing systems operate differently and therefore have different requirements for materials. The current plastic used in our Vue® pack cups can be recycled wherever polypropylene/#5 plastic is accepted. Today, about half of communities in the United States accept #5 plastic for recycling, and that number is increasing. The Vue® brewing system is an incremental step on our journey to reduce the environmental impact of our products and allows for future improvements as material science evolves. To learn more about recycling the Vue® pack's plastic cups, please visit www.vuerecycling.com.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You do waste--plastic!!! What a joke that people buy this wasteful crap.

Ok, Judgy Mcjudger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, is it even socially acceptable to create that much waste? Unbelievable that people buy these things. Do you buy juice boxes of orange juice for yourself, too?

No, it's not socially acceptable. That's one reason I enjoyed being a SAHM. Instead of wasting money on gas and purchase of required outfits, etc, I made my own bread, spent part of the week composting our garbage (didn't use a disposer), made my children's clothes using hand stitches whenever possible (wasteful to use electricity to power a sewing machine), participated in a clothing and shoe swap, collected rainwater for flushing our toilets, walked our children to school, and made my husband's ties. We've tried to live as green as possible. Do you have some more suggestions? TIA!

I did that all too, while working 40 hours a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok crazy pp, i will go back to my dunkin donuts styrofoam large cups two or.three times a day.

This cracks me up. My dad does this. The rest of us go to Starbucks. Coffeetime takes hours at my parents' house.

I would buy him Keurig and lots of pods, but he actually likes to drive down to Dunkin Donuts twice a day.

[Anonymous]

Not to steer the thread in a different direction, but can someone tell me the best place online to get the pods at a discount? Amazon seemed pretty much the same as Target. Any other ideas?

[Anonymous]

http://www.ggcaa.com/2011/08/k-cups-krafts-keurig-cups-recycled-for.html?m=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to steer the thread in a different direction, but can someone tell me the best place online to get the pods at a discount? Amazon seemed pretty much the same as Target. Any other ideas?

Soap.com

Keurig website

Or bed bath beyond with coupon

[Anonymous]

http://www.ggcaa.com/2011/08/more-k-cup-crafts-from-jillian.html?m=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I do is run 2 k cups into one cup on the small cup setting makes it plenty strong. (yes I waste that much plastic) the also go in the recycling bin.

Yep, this is what I do too. It was DH's idea to get that damn Keurig and I hate it. So, even though it makes him cringe, I use two of those little shitty cups for each normal cup of coffee. I brew it on the smallest cup size to increase the strength. It's expensive and a waste but I can't stand the thought of having two coffee makers on the counter. Also, I generally make coffee in a regular coffee maker at work so I only use them on the weekends. It kinda makes the Sunday coffee thing suck though.

[Anonymous]

We have Tully's Breakfast Blend (extra bold) K-Cups and it is pretty strong. Fine for me, anyway.

It really depends on what kind of coffee you buy. We have tried other K-Cups that we did not like.

[Anonymous]

San Francisco Coffee French roast. Yum!!

http://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Coffee-12-Count/dp/B005ZBZLSU

Also carried by Costco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do some fucking Christmas crafts with them.

http://m.pinterest.com/karlajay1/k-cup-crafts/

Thank you! Great for Girl Scout projects.