A Greener Tomorrow in Our Brown World.
It's no secret here at friggencawfee.com that we're fully behind and support companies and groups that begin and strive towards recylcing initiatives, inventions, and technologies.
I'm pleased to report now that I've recently read an article from a new startup company known as Recycap who is pushing towards making recyclable coffee pods the common thing everyone uses everyday.
They've secured over a half a million dollars in investment for this new venture and it's a major win for the Valencian based company to progress toward their goals to make our world a better, cleaner place.
The coffee pod has been an excellent invention, but it's staggering to know that since their conception and wide spread use in the world nearly 5 billion pods have been dumped in landfills and their aluminum construction requires about 500 hundred years from nature for them to fully degrade.
How do we know that since they aren't even a hundred years old yet? Well computers and math of course!
So while coffee pods are super awesome more and more companies are hoping on board to tackle the growing problem of coffee pod waste and pollution.
After all there is a metric ton of people who drink coffee, so it's a big problem.
Now while a large portion of the residential market has/is moving over to recyclable pods already and more people become aware to make the switch Recypods new focus is on the commercial market, where mass production crates of coffee pods being sent out for mass distribution still don't have the green tech scale required to stop the aluminum pollution.
To give us a better idea on just how much is getting pumped out of factories, there are roughly 39k coffee pods produced each day world wide, and only 10% of what is produced and used is recycled at this time.
That puts roughly 100 tons in a land fill every day as well.
That's A LOT of coffee pods.
Recycap is working on an automated solution to capture and recycle a much larger number of this waste, which even has a platform that extracts previously constructed coffee pods from the ground, cleans, and recycles them for later use.
To me, that's friggen awesome!
They're also working on a vastly smaller system called REACT™ for residential markets that will essentially do the same thing without the need of pulling them from the ground.
These large scale machines will be sold and used around the world in landfills to recover our wasted coffee pods and other large scale machines will be used by big companies like Starbucks and Dunkin to recycle their pods before they even hit the trash can.
The result? A far cleaner coffee process!
Happy sipping my fellow coffee lovers!
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– Mark, Friggen Cawfee Connoisseur