Imagine for a moment how it would look if you could see a mountain of 200 million paper coffee filters and grinds. It would be over 150 feet high and occupy one acre, like a 19 story building! That’s what we coffee drinkers toss our every day in the USA. The waste ends up in our landfills everywhere. And paper filter companies have to cut down 11,837 trees every day to make us those filters.
The American people can save a forest every day if we responsibly switch from flavor robbing paper filters to re-useable coffee filters. Laid end to end like pieces of pipe, 11,837 trees are 90 miles long. The trees cut for paper filters would circle the earth every 9.27 months laid end to end. And the paper industry that made the filters creates 13% of the toxic chlorine byproducts that are released into the environment every day as well as 96% of dioxins. This is a perfect example of why our blue planet needs our help to eliminate waste and save our forests.
Waste is a growing problem, including paper coffee filters.
Between 1960 and 2008 the amount of waste each person creates has almost doubled from 2.7 to 4.5 pounds per day. The most effective way to stop this trend is by preventing waste in the first place. That takes a little creative engineering on everyone’s part. Even when it comes to the lowly coffee filter. Now mind you, it may not appear to be a significant way to prevent waste, but how many years did it take to grow 30 acres of forest that paper filter makers use every day?
And it’s a win-win for coffee lovers who crave great flavor and aroma!
Absolutely! The best way to brew coffee and get the best flavor and aroma is with a re-useable coffee filter, like the Gold Tone© Coffee Filter - the non-absorbent filter that lets the flavor through without impacting the environment.
Flavor robbing paper coffee filters begin as trees. Let’s save the earth one pot of coffee at a time.
Happy ending!
The best part of this story is a re-useable coffee filter will save you money the first year and every year until it breaks. For example the premium Gold Tone© Re-useable Coffee Filter will not only save 30 acres of forest each day, but will completely improve the flavor and aroma of the coffee you brew, and save you from buying a couple of thousand dollars worth of paper coffee filters in our lifetime. And that ain’t no joke these days!
