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Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable (www.techradar.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes! We can finally buy our way out of unnecessary waste, and ultimately climate change, with this new thing that keeps us buying. Just gotta buy the ecological things and everything will be good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hear you and ultimately we all have our own versions of utopia. But it doesn't stop us celebrating small steps in the right direction just because we're not at our destination.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is it a step in the right direction, or is it a refinement to the sinister system that is sending us down the drain?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It can be both

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Not on Lemmy.

Here you have to be angry about everything or you're part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Especially when you could just buy a sack of coffee instead of disposables or single use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Or we could stop putting the onus on consumers and demand manufacturers/producers actually do the right thing. Even Keurig said they're still making the plastic pods. The actual answer is regulation.

We need to stop excusing the "it's too expensive to be green" bullshit. If it's too expensive not to poison the planet then it's not economically feasible.

It's like saying "it's too expensive to not put poison in our food", then you shouldn't be making food.