{"id":30174,"date":"2016-03-02T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=30174"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:43:59","slug":"hamburg-bans-single-use-coffee-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/awareness-and-hype\/hamburg-bans-single-use-coffee-pods.php","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg bans single-use coffee pods"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThe German city of Hamburg has made a move to stop the use and distribution of single-use coffee pods. In an endeavor by the city\u2019s Department of Environment and Energy a special effort has been made to curb the amount of waste caused by this wasteful means of serving coffee. \u201cThese portion packs cause unnecessary resource consumption and waste generation, and often contain polluting aluminium,\u201d said the department\u2019s Jan Dube. \u201cThe capsules can\u2019t be recycled easily because they are often made of a mixture of plastic and aluminum. It is 6 grams of coffee in 3 grams of packaging. We in Hamburg thought that these shouldn\u2019t be bought with taxpayers\u2019 money.\u201d The alarming fact that the sale of single-use dispensers and serving pods going up has led to the extreme measure.
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\nAn observation states that the usage of such coffee pods to serve coffee has increased in the Western European region. Of the 9.8 billion portion packs sold in 2014 by Keurig, only 5 percent were recyclable.<\/p>\n
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