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The reusable cup is not the point
Opinion: life-cycle assessments put most of a coffee drink’s footprint on the farm and in the dairy. The cup is real, small, and getting most of the attention.
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What the coffee pod life-cycle studies actually compare
A Wageningen assessment ranked compostable, aluminum, and plastic capsules against each other. What it found, and the question it never asked.
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What honey and sugar each cost to produce
The carbon ranges overlap almost completely. The real differences are land, allocation, and the fact that managed honeybees are livestock, not wildlife.
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Most of a latte’s carbon footprint is the milk
Life-cycle assessments agree on the ranking: in a milk drink, the dairy outweighs the coffee. What an LCA counts, and where shipping actually sits.