Owner of Peet's to buy Keurig for almost $14B

Re:Owner of Peet's to buy Keurig for almost $14B by cm2012 on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:40PM (#10692091)

Eh - there is actually plenty of room for pretty much all the trash humanity could possibly create. A hole ten miles square and couple of hundred feet deep could hold all of the U.S.'s trash for the next 100 years (this is not a controversial statement). And recycling is energy inefficient for pretty much everything but aluminum and steel.

Keurig solved a huge problem in offices - how to always have coffee available when people en masse are pretty bad at refilling the coffee. No amount of hand wringing will make people better at things like refilling coffee.

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Re:Owner of Peet's to buy Keurig for almost $14B by dahart on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:59PM (#10692211)

Like space, energy is also a non-argument, there's plenty of it.

The thing we don't have is infinite petroleum resources to make single use plastic cups. The other thing we don't need is unnecessary amounts of toxic production polluting the air, water, and land far and wide outside the hole in the ground where the waste goes.

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Re:Owner of Peet's to buy Keurig for almost $14B by JustSomeNobody on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:01PM (#10692228)

What was the problem? There were already machines that self filled with water. Just toss coffee in a filter and go!

I promise you, it's NOT that hard.

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Re:Owner of Peet's to buy Keurig for almost $14B by cruise02 on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:09PM (#10692302)

And yet, people still don't make a new pot when they take the last of the old.

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Re:Owner of Peet's to buy Keurig for almost $14B by cm2012 on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:11PM (#10692314)

There's a reason one of the classic books in conversion optimization is called "Don't make me think!"

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