article_snippet: Last year Keurig sold 9.8 billion Keurig-brewed portion packs and earned $4.7billion.
article_snippet: However despite the multi-billion pound success of Keurig nothing has been done to try and make the packaging of the popular Keurig pods recyclable.
article_snippet: Nespresso machines do not take the Keurig capsules but take similar plastic ones and Nespresso has established Nespresso own sustainability advisory board.
article_snippet: Damaging: Keurig has come under fire on numerous occasions from environmentalists who claim that the number of K-Cups sold in 2014 alone would circle the earth 12 times if they were laid down end-to-end .
article_snippet: Keurig has come under fire on numerous occasions from environmentalists who claim that the number of K-Cups sold in 2014 alone, and subsequently put into landfills, would circle the earth a staggering 12 times if they were laid down end-to-end.
article_snippet: But despite the continued criticism, Keurig Green Mountain, the brewing system's parent company, has yet to come up with a viable solution to the problem, despite insisting that they have been trying to find an environmentally-friendly alternative since 2006. '
article_snippet: It's a warranted criticism,' Monique Oxender, chief sustainability officer for Keurig Green Mountain, told The Salt earlier this year. '
highlights_snippet: John Sylvan said Keurig's own-brand K-Cup pods cannot be recycled .
  