Cory Doctorow tweeted a post from 2014: Defeat Keurig’s K-Cup DRM with a single piece of tape.
It’s difficult to imagine a more environmentally unfriendly coffee maker than those by Keurig.
For every cup of coffee it brews, it adds to landfill waste. Yeah, for every cup, the environment is incrementally diminished. Not by much for any one cup but imagine the thousands of cups per day that pour (sorry) from Keurig machines.
Normally I enjoy stories of breaking DRM efforts but in this particular case, it only encourages more environmentally unfriendly companies to spring up manufacturing the same wasteful products as Keurig.
The best way to deal with a Keurig machine is to superglue or weld the damned thing shut. That will decrease the demand for more outlets selling environmentally unfriendly forms of coffee. Well, not just one machine, there needs to be an epidemic of people sealing off their own machines.
Working from home I do quite well with a late 1950’s/mid-1960’s drip pot that requires only hot water and coffee. Nothing disposable except for coffee grounds and they go in the compost heap. Well, and the coffee bag that goes into recycling.
Make 2016 the year when the conspicuous consumption and waste of Keurig coffee machines ends.
PS: A common pot of coffee also saves time by narrowing the range of choices: the coffee is hot and black or the pot is empty. Fewer choices, quicker turn around at the coffee machine. 😉