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How to recycle coffee Grounds Grounds: Don’t know what to do with your leftover grounds? Rather than throwing them away, try recycling them in one of our interesting ways. Use coffee grounds as plant food. Dilute your leftover coffee grounds to make your very own homemade plant food. To make, mix one part leftover coffee grounds with four parts cool water, and water your plants once every other week. Touch up furniture and other wood scratches with grounds and a cotton swab. It’s an easy, inexpensive way to restore your furnishings. Throw coffee grounds on ashes before cleaning out the fireplace to reduce the spread of dust. Use coffee grounds to dye clothing or paper.  

Climate change! Global warming and a hot cup of coffee. What do they have in common? CO2 Carbon Dioxide.   Yes it's sad to say that those bubbles you see in you fresh cup of Joe is the dreaded green house gas Carbon Dioxide.   You are most likely to see the this if you dispense your coffee from a pump. Like the ones at your local mini mart.  But take hart the EPA has bigger fish to fry for the moment.   

  The K cup controversy just keeps going and going. The halls echo with the cry's.....they are filling our land fills....they would circle the earth dozens of times.....there killing the planet!   Get a grip people. K cups, even in their billions are not filling land fills. No more than used coffee grounds are. Just look at what you thro away every day and by any measure those K cups are meaningless.   The media buzz over K cups and land fills is just one way the other makers are making trouble for Keurig and it's Keurig only K cups.  So if you are a K cup user take hart. Your not filling the land fills or killing the planet. You are just a pawn in the fight over who sells you your coffee and how.  

  Is a clear Styrofoam cup in your future? Most likely at some point. The standard Styrofoam cup comes in all colors and art work know to man except one, clear. Now I am not talking clear plastic but true Styrofoam.  "Caution contents HOT" has real meaning when served in a standard plastic cup clear or other wise.   Plastic cups have little no insulation property's and that paper sleeve is little help. Why clear you ask? Your coffee will taste better, really. Test have given us this insight into the human mind. Trendy cup have been hitting the news lately like the KFC's Cookie cup. Cups with seed in them. Bio degradable cups and so on and so on. It is only a mater of time before a clear Styrofoam cup comes to market. With consumers willing to pay high dollar for  K cups. A new trendy clear Styrofoam cup will be an instant hit. But will they get the feel right?

  One years of used K cups will more than circle the Earth is the big coffee buzz. Okay so what's the problem. This could be said of countless items we use everyday.  The world uses disposable packaging by the countless millions of pounds. With the vast majority disposed of in a proper way.  The most pressing problem with K cups is the cost, not the used K cup that goes into the trash. A cup of coffee from a K cup can be four times the cost of other methods of brewing your morning coffee.  Is a K cup easy to use and  faster? Yes. Faster and easy cost money it's a way of life.  So don't let those used K cups keep you up all night. If the environment is that big of a concern for you then buy an electric car and keep your Kreurig. .