Tassimo, Tassimo Pods
While at my cousin's house the other day, I noticed that he had purchased a Tassimo machine. Now, these fancy contraptions are for those people who are time-starved, and only want to make one perfect cup of a beverage, whether it is coffee or tea. Holy waste, batman! Making a perfect cup involves pouring in water into the machine, as well as placing a coffee/tea disc (there are options for organic and fair trade coffees and teas) into the machine and your "one perfect cup" is made. However, the coffee/tea disc is made of plastic as well as containing a layer of foil on top - and there is no possibility to recycle these discs.
My assumed rationale behind this amount of packaging: For the pods, likely it is convenience, the nicety of having a gadget, and keeping the tea or coffee "fresh". There is a certain futuristic Jetsons feel to it also.
Alternative considerations: Whatever happened to just boiling a bit of water in a kettle and just using a conventional tea bag, or even instant coffee?
The Tassimo discs are made by Kraft, contact Tassimo here:
Email Tassimo US here.
Email Tassimo Canadahere
Call Tassimo US and Canada here, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: 1-877-TDISCS1 (1-877-834-7271)
Labels: Braun, Gillette, Kraft, plastic, Procter and Gamble, Tassimo
posted by hkm @ 7:45 PM
3 Comments:
I have a Tassimo, and I put the pods in my recycle bin....I have had other things refused by the "recycle guys", but not the pods. Our municipality recycles just about everything, perhaps other places aren't as flexible.
Our recycler, Morris County MUA in NJ, won't take any plastic that is not a bottle. It also must have a #1 or #2 on the bottle.
Has anybody had any problems with the pods blowing up, we have had many blow up making quite a mess, anybody have any suggestions
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