Facts about K-Cups
- 95% OF K-CUPS MADE BY GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE CAN NOT BE RECYCLED.
- All the K-Cups sold in 2014 would wrap around the Earth 10.5 times. That is about 115,967,617,920 K-Cups.
- U.S. customers spent 3.232 billion dollars for K-Cups.
- Compared to drip coffee makers, Keurig K-cups increase the amount of waste added to landfills. They are made of single use materials that are fused together making problems for recycle sorting facilities. Please view this video for the entire story at http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000072389
- It will take Green Mountain Coffee 5 years to make all K-Cup products recyclable. That means that in the meantime, about 58 billion more K-Cups will be added to the world's landfills.
- There are more than 200 varieties of K-Cups, and they're even creating a system for Campbell's soup and Coca-Cola beverages.
- When using K-Cups, the estimated cost of coffee per pound is $30.00-$50.00
- Keurig originally planned on K-Cups being used for businesses, not as household appliances. Since they thought only businesses would use Keurig brewers, they didn't expect the amount of K-Cups in the landfills to start causing problems.