Even “green” K-cups kinda suck for the environment

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By Jess ZimmermanApr 9, 2014, 3:24 pm64 pts
We recently found out that K-cups, those single-serve thingers you use in your office’s Keurig coffeemaker, create so much trash that debris from the ones sold just in the last year would circle the planet almost 11 times. And if that wasn’t enough to drive you back to old-school percolators, try this on…

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