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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by amanaplanacanal on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:35AM (#50377136)
Environmental burden of coffee: are you taking about transport costs to wherever you are, or something else?
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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by benrutter on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:39AM (#50377164)
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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by my-huge-pony on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:14AM (#50377410)
Apparently producing coffee beans for one large coffee uses 140kg of water. Ok, that sounds like a lot.

But also apparently producing one meal worth of chicken takes 700kg of water. Over 3000kg of water for beef. So I think, in comparison, coffee water use if negligible.

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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by AdamN on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:15AM (#50390486)
The excess coffee used at home vs the precise amount in a Nespresso pod is the driver of that delta that I was referring to.

The overall issue is that coffee pod waste is de minimus compared to the environmental impact of the coffee industry at large.

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