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I can be a coffee and food snob but that's not what this is about. And I never disparaged the instant coffee consumer at all. It's about a society that conforms to instantaneous gratification and total garbage while simultaneously destroying our environment. And I've got news for you: Keurig and Nespresso pods are instant coffee but you're pretending it's something else and lying to yourself and the world.. They could package and label it any way they want, with 1000 options and colors, and the end result is that you're stil drinking liquid crap through a very expensive machine. The fact that we have convinced ourselves that saving a few minutes supercedes quality, or that we have the gall to tell people the quality is good when it comes to coffee pods in particular, is what I object to on its face. We shouldn't celebrate dishonesty and lazines which is the true essence of pod culture. People will still love you if you don't conform to it, especially our planet.
You exhibited precisely the coffee snobbery called out at least 3 times in that diatribe while trying to pretend it was some highbrow service to the planet and consumer Instant coffee is “acceptable”…but on your terms. Otherwise people are lazy and dishonest. Never change Muggs
I mean come on pods are objectively horrible for the amount of micro plastics in your body and the amount of non decomposable plastic that gets tossed. Go to town on Folgers pre ground or instant freeze dried coffee but it's perfectly valid to call out K cups and the pouches as bad for the environment
And I never disparaged the instant coffee consumer at all.
It's about a society that conforms to instantaneous gratification and total garbage while simultaneously destroying our environment.
And I've got news for you: Keurig and Nespresso pods are instant coffee but you're pretending it's something else and lying to yourself and the world.. They could package and label it any way they want, with 1000 options and colors, and the end result is that you're stil drinking liquid crap through a very expensive machine.
The fact that we have convinced ourselves that saving a few minutes supercedes quality, or that we have the gall to tell people the quality is good when it comes to coffee pods in particular, is what I object to on its face. We shouldn't celebrate dishonesty and lazines which is the true essence of pod culture. People will still love you if you don't conform to it, especially our planet.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Just putting this out there:https://lifetechshorts.com/2022/03/17/is-nespresso-bad-for-the-environment/
Translation: Instant coffee consumers are lazy and are destroying our environmentTranslation: Instant coffee consumers are dumb and/or lie to themselvesTranslation: Instant coffee consumers are lazy, have bad taste, and/or lie about their tasteThat was an impressively quick contradiction. For the record, I'm not a coffee drinker so I don't have a dog in this fight and I agree with your point about them being bad for the environment.
Read up about the environmental impact Eagle. Oh....and btw if you calculate the actual cost of pods of coffee it comes to $50 a pound. And yes, we are lazy, foolish, and conform to idiotic things.
Whenever you order nespresso, they give you a bag to recycle, and you mail it back to them (or drop it off at the local store).Its easy, and even a lazy person like me can do it.Full disclosure, I like the taste of the coffee I make in my cona, but as I said before, I am lazy.
Like I said, I agree with your point about the environmental impacts. But don't claim you aren't disparaging instant coffee consumers when you are disparaging them. It's fine you have that opinion, just own it.
Do you really think people are taking these pods when they reach the garbage, breaking them apart, and actually recycling them?
Nespresso says its global recycling rate is 30%, and that 91% of its users have access to one of its 100,000 collection points around the world. But some experts have suggested that just 5% of Nespresso pods are recycled. Even if Nespresso’s figure is accurate, with a conservative estimate of 14bn capsules being sold each year, and 0.9 grams of aluminium per capsule, that means 12,600 tonnes of Nespresso aluminium end up in landfill annuallyhttps://amp.theguardian.com/food/2020/jul/14/nespresso-coffee-capsule-pods-branding-clooney-nestle-recycling-environment
Do beer/soda cans and plastic or glass bottles next
I drink everything out of reusable burlap sacks. Not great for retaining the liquid itself but damn I feel good about the planet when I do.
We shouldn't celebrate dishonesty and lazines which is the true essence of pod culture.
Love coffee, but usually use a traditional coffee maker to brew it. K-cups occasionally on main level of house, if I need just a late afternoon cup.. another Keurig is in the basement bar and never gets usedYou probably like to get $7 weirdo coffee at Starbucks
Cans are fine, bottles should 100% be banned.
Exception for High Life bottles, but otherwise yes.