The market for single-serving coffee pods is dominated by Keurig's K-Cups. But they aren't recyclable, and critics say that's making a monster of an environmental mess. Meet the K-Cup Godzilla.

WASHINGTON — They are said to produce enough waste to wrap around the equator 10.5 times, or more. The single-serve Keurig Cups, otherwise known as K-Cups, are an inspiration or an abomination… ...

Keurig K-Cups will be clogging up landfills until at least 2020. But a Grade 6 class in Thunder Bay, ... "Instead of them doing it on paper, they're building their acute angle.

According to a 2014 article in Mother Jones, Green Mountain made 8.3 billion of the non-biodegradeable, mostly non-recyclable K-Cups in 2013 — "enough to wrap around the equator 10.5 times." ...

The real prize is K-Cups, single-serving coffee packets used in Green Mountain's increasingly popular Keurig brewing machines. K-Cup sales are up 63 percent from last year , and Diedrich holds one ...

K-Cups may be convenient, but they create a lot of waste. ... Likewise disposable paper coffee cups and their plastic lids are also now recyclable in the blue box, if they are empty.

South Florida coffee drinkers uncomfortable with waste created by Keurig machines can now recycle all those K-Cups. Boca Raton-based Office Depot/OfficeMax stores at 4901 Sheridan St. in Hollywood … ...