If you make a coffee pod with recyclable materials, but few facilities can process it, is it genuinely all that recyclable?
A lawsuit currently winding its way through the courts seeks to answer that question. At issue is whether Keurig mislead consumers by labeling their pods as recyclable when in many cases, depending on the local materials recovery facility (MRF), they aren’t recyclable, in many cases, due to their small size.
According to the lawsuit, the coffee pod producer makes the used packaging even harder to recycle by instructing consumers to leave the inner filter intact when recyclingâthis introduces contamination, and the pods get sorted out and discarded.
