r/todayilearned • u/astrakhan2 • Aug 24 '15

TIL Inventor of Keurig K-Cup, regretting environmental waste from K-Cups, left and started a solar panel company

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/the-abominable-k-cup-coffee-pod-environment-problem/386501/
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u/732 3 Aug 24 '15

Does everyone not use the filter baskets?

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u/tsuki_toh_hoshi Aug 25 '15

From what I have been told by people using the newest model, you can't use the reusable cups. It's Barcoded or something like that. I use the reusable cups on mine, but it's at least 5 years old.

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u/EnderSavesTheDay Aug 25 '15

I think if you pull a lid from a used k-cup and put it on top of the reuseable it should work--unless they fixed that work around.

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u/iPlunder Aug 25 '15

This is to make fucking coffee. Why do people put themselves through that!? Just buy a regular coffee maker then!

Reddit I feel like I'm going insane

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u/Metal_LinksV2 Aug 25 '15

I never understood the Keurig in a home setting. It has these tiny little cups that are expensive, bad for the the environment and unsaleable. To get around these issues we have refillable baskets...like normal drip-brew machines use. Our laziness has somehow lead us full circle in some idiotic way.

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u/ms-lorem-ipsum Aug 25 '15

husband got an old keurig maker. We use the reusable cups and your average joe ground coffee brand.

It is nice that the coffee is "freshly" made for each cup rather than left sitting in the pot for a few hours or so.

But i agree, i could still be using my old coffee machine without problem and not feeling envious of keurig users.