One of the few problems with owning a single cup coffee maker is the ever concerning amount of waste produced by these products. Few, if not none, of the companies manufacturing single serving coffee cups have figured out a way to make their capsules/cartridges/TDISCs/K-Cups etc. recyclable.
So, has Flavia found a way to make a “green come true”?
Yes, and no. Rather than REcycling, Flavia Coffee has begun participating in UPcycling. What is upcycling, you ask? Well, it’s the “art” of turning trash into usable products. And the company TerraCycle.net is on a huge mission to help save the world, one bag of trash at a time.
The company forms brigades. People collect a certain item and some of the items even have a payout of about 2 cents per item- i.e 2 cents for every Lays potato chip bag that you contribute to the Lays’s chip brigade. Some of the products are really neat.
While there are no products for sale as of yet that have been created from Flavia brew packs, TerraCycle assures us that they are coming soon. Just as soon as they collect enough of these packs. Join the cause today and turn your trash into wearable treasure!
http://www.terracycle.net/brigades/search?query=flavia
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We cut open each of the filter packs and use the used coffee grounds for fertilizing plants
Gary, I give you two thumbs up for the [up]cycling of your filter packs! Makes me wish I could grow plants!