Keurig's New Coffee Pods Really Are Sustainable — But There's a Catch The company is rolling out completely plastic-free and compostable pods by 2025. Here's everything you need to know.

There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing systems — which allow consumers to make just one cup of coffee at a time by feeding a pod into a ...

Keurig started selling K-cups pods made of polypropylene in 2016, with the goal of making 100% of K-cup pods “recyclable” by 2020. But the company has run into trouble for touting recyclability.

The charges against Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. stem from its 2019 and 2020 annual reports, which said that the company tested and “validate[d] that [K-Cup pods] can be effectively recycled.” ...

Keurig agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties — without admitting guilt or denying the SEC's findings that the K-Cup pod producer made inaccurate claims regarding the recyclability of those pods.

But in general, as I write this in early 2025, Nespresso’s VertuoLine coffee pods are about $1.30 to $1.35 each while Keurig’s coffee pods are about 65 to 70 cents a piece.