This is the best summary I could come up with:
The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so, and he can’t understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.
John Sylvan worked at Keurig in the 1990s when he devised a simple product that could create a small mug of coffee out of a plastic pod.
Originally aiming it at office workers, Sylvan said he thought the product might have some limited appeal to people who would normally go Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts or other coffee chains in the morning, because now they could get a cup of coffee at work that was cheaper, faster, and no fuss.
“That would make it environmentally neutral, because you wouldn’t have those Starbucks cups [everywhere],” Sylvan told the CBC’s As It Happens in an interview.
He says he doesn’t begrudge the company for its success, or for wanting to make money, but he does question consumers’ slavish devotion to the things.
The company’s latest product, the Keurig 2.0, which allows users to use pods to make larger cups and pots of coffee, is a great example of that.
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If you work in a place that only has a k cup machine and no brew pot (heresy, I know), there are reusable fillers.
I moved to a somewhat small company that had just opened a new physical office and they only had single serving kcup machines for almost 6 months.
Me, drinking 4+ cups of coffee a day, in the office 5 days a week, didn’t produce roughly 600 pieces of kcup trash thanks to the reusable filter. Plus, I brought my own better coffee that I ground at home.
If you can’t tell, I really fucking hate kcups.
He doesn’t regret all the coke, hookers, and lambos though
He sold his share back in ‘97 for 50k
Well no wonder he lives in regret
This is so damned silly. Got buy a single fountain drink, a single soda, whatever, and you’ve wasted far more plastic.
Still, waste is waste, so go get a refillable pod. Think I got 4 for $10 off eBay? They basically last forever.
