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\nVermont-based Keurig Green Mountain, a coffee company, makes K-cup pods for single coffee servings. They are now trying to solve the problem of the waste created by these pods. The hot beverage machines are so popular they have created a...\nVermont-based Keurig Green Mountain, a coffee company, makes K-cup pods for single coffee servings. They are now trying to solve the problem of the waste created by these pods. The hot beverage machines are so popular they have created a recycling problem because there are now billions of used plastic cups that are not recyclable. Keurig has pledged to make all K-Cups recyclable by 2020, which is a big challenge. Once a recyclable material is found for the cups, there is also the issue of sorting them at recycling facilities. Listen to hear more about the challenges of meeting this promise to recycle K-Cups.\n
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plastic, size, wind, consumers
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environment, vpr, vpr news, recycling industry, cake cups, keurig, materials, company, cups, morris, recyclable, landfill, make, murph, system, handle, shape, problem, made, small, material, change, fact, alexander, making, capture, item, defining
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