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[June Lands]

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.

[Moonchilde]

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.

[Kachina624]

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

[GCR18]

Sure, you can recycle the cups.

[June Lands]

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

[Moonchilde]

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.

[June Lands]

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.

[circles]

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....

[Moonchilde]

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.

[millieshops]

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.