This is quite exciting in that it removes plastic waste. I see no reason why different companies can’t make different shape ones to maintain their lock-in. I expect a knock-off market to pop-up, but that exists with plastic pods too. It’s a step in the right direction at least.

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    Huh? Your response doesn’t make sense. Were you intentionally ignoring the point of the op: coffee is more sustainable than non-renewable resources?

    That’s like saying sunshine is free and then somebody trying to argue against that point but criticizing the price of sunscreen …

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      8 months ago

      Yes because it doesn’t make any sense. Not only is the coffee industry not really all that sustainable, it’s completely meaningless to compare two types of resource in entirely different categories.

      It doesn’t matter how “unsustainable” a medically necessary resource like helium is in comparison to literally any amount of environmental or social damage caused by the persuit of a luxury good.

      Also, as a rebuttal to a rebuttal to the idea that canned coffee is still better it doesn’t make any sense, because the logic that “coal isn’t sustainable” could justify literally any amount of ecological damage in the coffee supply chain, thereby justifying the pods. You could chop down and burn a tree for every sack of coffee you fill, for fun, and it still probably wouldn’t be as unsustainable as coal.

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          “coal exists, so coffee is sustainable, but not coffee in pod form” is legitimately one of the dumbest things I’ve read on this site, so I’m just surprised you’re hitching your wagon to that post