People are destroying their Keurigs in protest of company pulling ads from 'Hannity' show

[Xipe Totec]

2. The irony is that it's probably the most eco-friendly thing to do with those gadgets.

Politics aside, those things generate an atrocious amount of undecomposable landfill.


When John Sylvan invented K-Cups — those trendy little coffee pods — he wasn’t even that keen on the drink. He knew he had something brewing but, he said, he never thought the invention would feed a universal coffee addiction.

A couple of years ago, so many pods were produced — some 8.3 billion — Mother Jones estimated the discarded ones would wrap around the Earth more than 10 times. Last year, 9.8 billion packages were sold, though those were reportedly recyclable.

Still, the trash produced by the multibillion-dollar invention gives Sylvan regrets, he told the Atlantic in an exclusive interview.

“I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it,” he said.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/05/k-cups-inventor-i-feel-bad-sometimes-that-i-ever-did-it