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Sini Tuulia

@Ailbhe @renwillis They *could* be composted or recycled, but are not, because it would be expensive and fiddly and require much more work, and there's much more precious and time sensitive things to compost and recycle. It's just a marketing gimmick.

And I'd prefer they'd make some kind of basic cup of coffee at home, with some sweetener and blanching if they so please... And then pick up the fancy thing on their way to wherever they're actually going, instead of driving back and forth while half awake!

28 August at 11:00 | Open on eldritch.cafe
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Ailbhe
Sini Tuulia

@Ailbhe @renwillis There is a startling amount of people who don't even sort their trash! It all goes in the same bin. And then sometimes, the municipality puts it in the same big bin (landfill) even if you've sorted it at home, especially in the US where most of the budget goes into maintaining roads and parking lots or so I've been led to believe.
I wouldn't be surprised if the pods made in the US had something different in them as well, the regulations are terrifyingly lax sometimes.

28 August at 11:18 | Open on eldritch.cafe
ren 🏳️‍🌈 (a they/them)

@sinituulia @Ailbhe Yeah. Especially in the states. Barely anything is ever composted. At best, the cups are tossed in the recycling bin in the house in vain hopes that someone is recycling it down the line. Which they rarely are.

28 August at 11:17 | Open on mstdn.social
Ailbhe

@renwillis @sinituulia oh. The non-compostable ones are aluminium here and that definitely gets recycled, unlike glass. It's one of the easy ones. I suspect home composting is more common here too. I haven't bought any aluminium ones so I don't know what other packaging they come with, but my pod machine came with an emptier-and-squasher for handling them.

28 August at 11:30 | Open on mendeddrum.org
magsafe genitalia

@sinituulia @Ailbhe @renwillis also note that Keurig specifically tried to make coffee pods with RFID chips in them to force people to buy their extra-expensive pods, which would make them ewaste even if the rest of the pod was compostable

28 August at 12:30 | Open on slime.global
chico

@sinituulia
Exactly.

"Recyclable" is not the same as "recycled". It's the last of the three Rs for a reason.

It's a future promise on sustainability that we can externalize somewhere else, for convenience.

Convenience is what makes people use drive-throughs.

@Ailbhe @renwillis

28 August at 16:03 | Open on mstdn.social
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