{"id":1293,"date":"2016-03-14T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:33:30","slug":"a-german-city-has-banned-single-serve-coffee-pods-and-plastic-water-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2016\/03\/a-german-city-has-banned-single-serve-coffee-pods-and-plastic-water-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"A German City Has Banned Single-Serve Coffee Pods and Plastic Water Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee capsules have been taking hard hits in recent times, from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uRGiGbX9lIo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Kill the K-Cup&#8221; video that went viral on Youtube<\/a> last year to remarks by John Sylvan, one of the founders of Keurig&#8217;s K-Cup, expressing remorse at ever having invented the now ubiquitous coffee pod.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRGiGbX9lIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yet the latest news on the coffee front is perhaps the most drastic: In January, the German city of Hamburg announced a ban on the purchase and use of coffee pods in all government-run buildings and institutions across the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capsule-coffee is expensive and the pods don&#8217;t have a good ecological balance sheet,&#8221; said Jan Dube, media spokesperson for the Ministry of the Environment and Energy. &#8220;They have lots of packaging compared to the small amount of coffee and we just decided we don&#8217;t want to buy those products anymore with public money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Dube, total consumption in 2014 in Germany was roughly three billion coffee capsules, which is estimated to equate to about 64 million pods consumed by Hamburg&#8217;s 1.75 million inhabitants. The number is concerning, said Dube, because the capsules&#8217; composition of plastic and aluminum is so hard to recycle. There is also a lot of packaging for just a little bit of coffee. Dube estimates that there are roughly three grams of packaging for every six grams of coffee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/a-german-city-has-banned-single-serve-coffee-pods-and-plastic-water-bottles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For full article by\u00a0Marie Doezema on VICE please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee capsules have been taking hard hits in recent times, from a &#8220;Kill the K-Cup&#8221; video that went viral on Youtube last year to remarks by John Sylvan, one of the founders of Keurig&#8217;s K-Cup, expressing remorse at ever having invented the now ubiquitous coffee pod. Yet the latest news on the coffee front is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,383],"tags":[546,545,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}