TreeHugger Post

According to treehugger.com and one of its articles, Trouble brewing for coffee pods as German city bans them to reduce waste, German cities are banning coffee pods to reduce waste. 

In Germany, a city called Hamburg introduced a ban on purchasing equipment for hot drinks in which proportional packaging is used, or coffee pods, which make up 1/8 of coffee's sold in Germany. According to Jan Dube, spokesman of the Hamburg Department of the Environment and Energy, proportional packs such as coffee pods create unnecessary pollution as the pods are made out of plastic and aluminum which make them very hard to recycle. Even though companies such as Nespresso, who have recycling plants who separate the foil from the plastic, Germany still believes that it isn't effective enough.