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Jordan DeVries
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Marleny Medina Serrano
Marleny Medina Serrano

Reducing waste one latte at a time

I'm an avid coffee drinker and I used to spend so much money on lattes. I drink them so often that I started to feel bad about the money I was spending on them. My final straw was when it dawned on me that these frequent purchases were SO bad for the planet. Not only is the coffee industry itself a bit problematic, but every drink was in a plastic cup. I felt like the best way to make an impact on both problems was to start making my lattes at home so I bought an espresso machine! However this introduced a new kind of waste, every latte I drink has a minimum of two espresso shots. And since my machine operated off of pod that meant that for every espresso shot I poured there was a plastic pod that came from it. For this project I decided to counteract…



Lid to the new reusable pod!

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Marleny Medina Serrano
Marleny Medina Serrano
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JasonJason

Reducing Waste


On my trip to Taiwan, I ended up buying a Bugcat (franchise) re-usable bag to use. This helped reduce my impact, as I was no longer using the single use throwaway plastic bags like I had been before. Removing that constant from my life is my step in helping the environment through reducing plastic waste, as the single use bags are often discarded afterwards and lead to litter in natural environments, which takes a long time to break down. Not only that, it also helps reduce things such as reducing resource usage, and effectively pollution as well. The production of these single use plastic bags takes specific fossil fuels such as natural gases and oil, whereas my new bag is made from cloth and has a lower impact on the environment. In a similar fashion, the creation and disposal of these plastic bags causes a lot of pollution in the air from the usage of these fuels. By using the reusable bag, I'm also helping reduce pollution in the air. Additionally, the usage of reusable bags calls towards the pathos of the general community. The more usage that these better alternatives get, the more of a signal it sends to companies that people care about the environment and for there to be a better way to treat the Earth.

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