We love our coffee in the morning, and to make it easy, we often use our Keurig one-cup machine (though we have a regular coffee maker for days when we need a gallon of caffeine.)
Like most people, we feel guilty about the waste. After all, we’re using the blue bins for recycling and a small composter for food waste.
In case you didn’t feel badly enough, Americans send more than 40 million plastic coffee pods to landfills every day.
So when PR reached out about Cambio Roasters, a small, family-owned company that just launched the first-ever recyclable aluminum pods, we had to try them.
Yes, they work with the most popular pod brewers.
Why aluminum, we wondered, and the company was happy to explain.
Nearly 75% of all aluminum ever produced in the world is still in use today. Since the aluminum molecule is so stable, it doesn’t break down in the recycling process, so it can be easily recycled over and over again.
As dark coffee drinkers, we like the ‘Special Dark,‘ a ‘bold, sophisticated expression with notes of dark chocolate, dried fruit and toasted marshmallow.’ It costs $40 for 60 pods. (You can also buy them on Amazon.)
Don’t get us wrong, as much as we want to save our planet, we wouldn’t buy Cambio’s coffee if it wasn’t so damn good.
Cambio sources its 100% organic beans from small farms in the world’s finest coffee-growing regions. The 100% organic, specialty-grade green coffee beans are then shipped to its roasting facilities, where they’re small-batch roasted by expert roast masters.
That all comes through in the taste.
