I still don’t understand why people love K cups so much. They make the coffee taste like plastic. I can’t stand them.
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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even the inventor was taken back by the waste of it all. Him and the guy who started bitcoin I think are the inventors with the most regrets.
I think that prize still goes to Alfred Nobel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
This is the guy with the most regrets. He put lead into gasoline and is responsible for CfC coolants that depleted the ozone layer. He also developed a device to grant him a greater degree of mobility when bedridden which unintentionally killed him.
While I agree he had a massive negative impact on the world, I don’t read any remorse in that biography, instead even after he personally got sick from lead poisoning and recovered, he still pushed for leaded gas. He just sucks
It was dynamite right. Honestly I don't see him as having as much regrets. As sucky as the war usages were it still helped in building and mining and such.
He literally regretted his invention so badly he founded the Nobel prize
the guy who started bitcoin
Who's that?
Its unclear. There is a japanese name associated with it but its assumed I believe that its not the persons actual name.
The waste, while unnecessary, is negligible. Go buy a drink, any plastic drink from anywhere, and you wasted more plastic than a K-cup.
Pro tip: Rip the top off, rinse it out, fill with dirt, perfect seed starter pod. Even has a drain hole pre-drilled. Also, chunk the coffee in your yard, garden, compost, whatever.
I would not say negligable. I mean there is a reason reusable bottles have become a thing and for a big cofee drinker at work that can be like a dozen k-cups.
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Is it the used item after a single-use, or the entire bin after several uses?
For the single-use, it actually kind of makes sense not to take it out. There are 2 possibilities when you go to the machine: it either has a used capsule, or it's empty. If you're the type of person that wants to throw away the used capsule each time you make a coffee, then you potentially need to throw away 2 capsules each time you make a coffee. Someone else's when you get there, and your own after making coffee. If you never throw away your own capsule, then you guarantee that you will only ever have to throw away max one capsule when you get to the machine, and so does everyone else after you (assuming they do the same).
And if you murder everyone who leaves the capsule in, eventually the problem completely solves itself!
As for the bin, that's a diff story, and I guess someone just needs to bite the bullet and empty it.
I vote for the murder option. People need to start conducting themselves better. We live in a society. Same goes for the ones leaving their cart out in the lot.
What is a K cup?
What Keurig calls their disposable 1 time use coffee containers. I also hate them just in principal
I'm not sure that's a thing in Europe, at least I never heard about that company. I only know these Nestlé trash
you absolutely have nespresso in Europe though
Which is Nestlé, right? ;)
Yeah, my first thought was that we're talking about a K-size bra cup...
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As someone who has never worked in an office, this sentence is so weird to me
it fucking sucks when the pot is empty, so if you kill the joe, you make some mo'
I do see where that would be annoying as hell
I'm siding with team leave it in.
Take one out, put yours in.
Everybody removes one pod. Fair and balanced as all things should be.
I’m going to set aside my dislike for pod machines and coffee in general to point out that warm moist environments encourage microbial growth. It is best to open and empty the machine so it can breathe between uses; especially overnight or over the weekend.
You're the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren't you?
This guy, I bet he even reclines in his airplane seat.
I said fair and balanced. I center that shit.
But your "fair and balanced" puts all the onus of clean up on the next person. Kind of like how parking far to one side of a parking spot puts all onus of creating enough space for people to get out of their car on the next person.
It's passing the buck because you can't be bothered to clean up after yourself.
But you in turn clean up for the person before you. Everybody takes one out, everybody puts one in.
I don't see where the buck is being passed.
I feel like you're either looking at this in too small of a scale, or your just REALLY hung up on my pods vs your pods. They're all the same. I don't see why you're too good to toss mine if I'm willing to toss yours.
Also, my machine at home thinks you're going to make a cup every time you open it, so instead of activating it when you DON'T want coffee, let it continue to think that it's not coffee time, and when you open it up and remove the last pod, it's ready to be loaded.
Because common sense and common courtesy is in short supply these days.