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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 sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@slrpnk.net
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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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[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it's a plant. You can grow it, and plenty of it is grown. It is objectively more sustainable than, say, coal or helium.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please dont't brew up coal or helium for breakfast.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But how will I make squeaky talk while enjoying my deep fried coal?

[–] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A Welshman and a Scotsman meet on a blimp and devise the stupidest idea for a gastropub...

[–] ceasarlegsvin@kbin.social -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

How does the coffee get from where it's grown and into the can? Where does the space to grow it come from?

Also, what are you talking about? Helium's uses are largely medical, which is pretty far up there on the list of things we can't do without.

Also, so what? These new coffee pods are also more sustainable than both helium and coal when you use whatever definition of sustainability you're using

[–] exothermic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fresh account and hardcore supporting an obvious marketing “news” article. Hmm…

[–] ceasarlegsvin@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Me: no coffee is environmentally sustainable or a necessity

You: damn they must be shilling for big coffee

Also you realise the fediverse isn't large enough to justify marketing on, right?

My highest rated comment is literally condoning videogame piracy. Did you think that accusation through at all? I'm honestly baffled.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Huh? Your response doesn't make sense. Were you intentionally ignoring the point of the op: coffee is more sustainable than non-renewable resources?

That's like saying sunshine is free and then somebody trying to argue against that point but criticizing the price of sunscreen ...

[–] ceasarlegsvin@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes because it doesn't make any sense. Not only is the coffee industry not really all that sustainable, it's completely meaningless to compare two types of resource in entirely different categories.

It doesn't matter how "unsustainable" a medically necessary resource like helium is in comparison to literally any amount of environmental or social damage caused by the persuit of a luxury good.

Also, as a rebuttal to a rebuttal to the idea that canned coffee is still better it doesn't make any sense, because the logic that "coal isn't sustainable" could justify literally any amount of ecological damage in the coffee supply chain, thereby justifying the pods. You could chop down and burn a tree for every sack of coffee you fill, for fun, and it still probably wouldn't be as unsustainable as coal.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok. You don't understand what sustainable means. Got it.

[–] ceasarlegsvin@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

"coal exists, so coffee is sustainable, but not coffee in pod form" is legitimately one of the dumbest things I've read on this site, so I'm just surprised you're hitching your wagon to that post