[HN Gopher] Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed
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       Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed
        
       Author : thomas
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-12-11 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (sprudge.com)
        
       | edoceo wrote:
       | Ugh, Keurig - the most expensive, wasteful way to make a mediocre
       | cup of coffee.
       | 
       | And the hardware breaks too
        
         | bserge wrote:
         | It's the fucking Juicero of coffee. If you put it that way, no
         | wonder that company got so much funding.
         | 
         | Seems juice drinkers are smarter than coffee guzzlers lol
        
       | WheelsAtLarge wrote:
       | All of these plastic replacements don't tackle the biggest issue
       | with plastic replacement and that's how to replace plastic and
       | still be able to use the manufacturing machines. Those machines
       | would be super expensive to replace. I suspect that by now all
       | those machines and the production lines have been paid for and
       | the owners would be unlikely to just stop using them because the
       | pods need to be made of something else.
        
       | davidhyde wrote:
       | To cut costs companies typically make teabags out of
       | polypropylene plastic instead of paper or alternatives. The
       | problem is not a lack of alternatives but that people aren't
       | aware (or don't care) that they are made of plastic. I mean, it
       | looks like paper. It's a good thing that they are using this
       | seaweed but it's not a "solved problem" until the negative PR
       | cost to these companies is higher that the cost of using non
       | plastic alternatives. I just don't understand why more companies
       | are not using this in their marketing campaigns. ... It's almost
       | as if there there really is no competition at all. It's almost as
       | if most brands are owned by the same company. Unilever ;)
        
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