Not to mention that theKeurigmay be the greatest thing to happen to office break rooms in decades.

Let’s start with cost.

Coffee in K-Cup form is a whoppingfive timesmore expensive than coffee beans.

K-Cups in a box

Talk about the price of convenience!

And not just any waste: plastic waste, which is not biodegradable.

For every six grams of coffee, K-Cup use creates about three grams of waste (Spoon University).

K-Cups display

Sticking to a regular old bag of coffee eliminates this problem entirely.

You may think “well, only hot water runs through the thing, surely it’s self-cleaning?”

But you would be wrong.

Keurig machine