
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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The Impact of Coffee Pods on the Environment
More than 29,000 cups of coffee drunk in Oxford every day. The significance of this story is the environmental impact from our seemingly trivial daily activities. One coffee pod will contain ground coffee beans inside, which is compostable by a degradable material. If it's a diode-biodegradable material, it can be sent into an aerobic digestion facilities to where it can recover biogas from that material.
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