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Question for K Cup users

June Lands — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:14:12 GMT

when you are done making whatever you brew....can you recycle the K Cup? The vendor said when done you just toss it in the trash....seems like a lot of garbage being produced if no one is recycling the plastic. I choose to brew my own coffee as I can recycle the grinds and the paper filter.

Re: Question for K Cup users

Moonchilde — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:20:42 GMT

Many available K-cups from various companies are biodegradable. Many use their own coffee in the older model Keurigs. Companies used to encourage recycling if you sent them used K-cups. Don't know if they still do.

Re: Question for K Cup users

Kachina624 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:26:03 GMT

A couple years ago, I read that there were 9 billion of the things in landfills.

Re: Question for K Cup users

GCR18 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:28:44 GMT

Sure, you can recycle the cups.

Re: Question for K Cup users

June Lands — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:33:16 GMT

I wonder what percentage of users actually recycle them.....

Re: Question for K Cup users

Moonchilde — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:51:17 GMT

So - the OP isn't really about wanting to know how K-cup users might recycle, it's just a slam at Keurig owners in general. That was my initial impression, but thanks for confirming. Carry on.

Re: Question for K Cup users

June Lands — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:54:45 GMT

On 1/16/2015 moonchilde said:
So - the OP isn't really about wanting to know how K-cup users might recycle, it's just a slam at Keurig owners in general. That was my initial impression, but thanks for confirming. Carry on.

Why would I slam a Keurig user? I just feel strong about recycling whenever possible. Sometimes products of convince tend to add more waste.

Re: Question for K Cup users

circles — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:00:08 GMT

no, I don't recycle my k-cups.....I drink one or two cups a day...so I am not making a lot of waste....really didn't know you could recycle them...I put a plastic container in my recycle bin this past week....and they left it....not sure why...I have put them in the recycle often...can't imagine what they would do with the k-cups....

Re: Question for K Cup users

Moonchilde — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:07:45 GMT

On 1/16/2015 circles said:
no, I don't recycle my k-cups.....I drink one or two cups a day...so I am not making a lot of waste....really didn't know you could recycle them...I put a plastic container in my recycle bin this past week....and they left it....not sure why...I have put them in the recycle often...can't imagine what they would do with the k-cups....

Some of the K-cups I use (my particular favorites, Peets and San Francisco Bay) are recyclable and some are not. I don't stress out over it, or feel guilty about it.

Re: Question for K Cup users

millieshops — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 04:14:56 GMT

It's one of the things I don't do for the environment.

I do recycle pretty much all my papers, bottles, cans, etc. I have never driven an SUV or traded cars every other year. I haven't ever gotten rid of a TV set while it was still working so I could have a bigger screen. All those actions help the environment. Also, I never added a human being to the planets population, so with all that, I'm not feeling in the last guilty about tossing my K-cups - in this house that's about 100 of them in a whole year since I brew my own coffee.

Saving the planet is like saving money - you don't have to save on every single action - you just have to do some very significant things that have an effect.

Re: Question for K Cup users

HonnyBrown — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:40:25 GMT

I don't recycle them.

For those who don't recycle k-cups or other recyclable items, not to worry: the recyclables are separated at the trash plants.

Re: Question for K Cup users

terrier3 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:41:15 GMT

Trader Joe's K Cups are recyclable.

Re: Question for K Cup users

firstsoprano — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:36:07 GMT

On 1/16/2015 annabella said:
On 1/16/2015 moonchilde said:
So - the OP isn't really about wanting to know how K-cup users might recycle, it's just a slam at Keurig owners in general. That was my initial impression, but thanks for confirming. Carry on.

Why would I slam a Keurig user? I just feel strong about recycling whenever possible. Sometimes products of convince tend to add more waste.

I agree Annabella - no negative opinion on my part of your original post.

Re: Question for K Cup users

HonnyBrown — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:39:40 GMT

On 1/17/2015 terrier3 said:
Trader Joe's K Cups are recyclable.

Those Coffee Kups are so good!!!

Re: Question for K Cup users

ValuSkr — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:52:34 GMT

Isn't there a reusable filter for K-cup coffee makers? And you can use regular ground coffee with it rather than the packaged K-cups? That's the way I'd go, if I had a personal coffee maker.

I don't think anyone's excused for generating only 100 K-cups of waste per year. If every home with a personal coffee maker did the same, it's a huge increment to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We owe it to future generations to do better.

Re: Question for K Cup users

madzonie — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:47:33 GMT

You can use your own ground coffee in the My K-Cup reusable cup, and/or you can buy the reusable Ekobrew cups. Just fill, brew, empty and reuse.

Re: Question for K Cup users

debic — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:10:22 GMT

100's of kcups probably doesn't equal one water bottle. There's very little plastic in one.

Nothing gets recycled here, there just isn't a recycle place/option. When there was the people who owned it just tossed everything out back together and people quit using it. No actual recycling was actually being done. That turned me into a cynic.

The carafe/vue cups are recyclable and I save those and use them for scoops and such, regular cups are great for seed starters but you only need so many of those, I'd think if you were a crafter or something you could glue the hole in the bottom and put small beads in them.

Re: Question for K Cup users

grannyjan — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:32:19 GMT

Call me bad but I had 5 kids and a husband that I took care of for many years. Then I thought recycling would be a good thing....Then one day they told me I had to leave the cap off the soda bottles, and make sure that little ring was not on the top. Wash cans cut both ends out of the cans and be sure to take the labels off and smash them. Take the tabs off soda cans and rinse and do not smash or smash depending on where they were going. Put glass here that you had washed and removed the label, cans go here, and cardboard ..........I am done...even my kids and husband washed themselves so now in my later years I use it and toss it......I feel like I have something coming to be since I never used a disposable diaper, paper towels or foam cups and plates till my later years....I am ahead I feel....

But if you really want a suggestion take the top off the k-cup mix the coffee with some potting soil and start seeds in them......

Re: Question for K Cup users

Daysdee — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:56:41 GMT

On 1/17/2015 ValuSkr said:
Isn't there a reusable filter for K-cup coffee makers? And you can use regular ground coffee with it rather than the packaged K-cups? That's the way I'd go, if I had a personal coffee maker.

I don't think anyone's excused for generating only 100 K-cups of waste per year. If every home with a personal coffee maker did the same, it's a huge increment to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We owe it to future generations to do better.

Yes, they make a reusable filter (cup) for your coffee. It is included in many of the brewers from QVC. They sell them all over also.

Re: Question for K Cup users

CalminHeart — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:59:31 GMT

I recycle a LOT but not k cups.