The Green Mountain Coffee-owned Keurig brewing machines, accompanied by their teeny tiny coffee pod counterparts known as K-Cups, are everywhere it seems (this editor recently inherited one, too, from her roommate).
The single-use plastic cups are moving beyond folks' kitchens and into community spaces like bank lobbies and doctor's offices to replace traditional drip coffee. And according to a satirical YouTube video uploaded last week by an account named Kill The K-Cup, K-Cup waste may also carry enough "umph" to invade a major city.
The short vid, modeled after science-fiction disaster films such as Independence Day, brings to life an absurd yet clever what-if scenario. A coffee pod takeover ensues, equipped with a K-Cup monster.
Though the video kicks off with "In 2014… there were enough discarded K-Cups to circle the Earth 10.5 times," it actually means 2013. Watch the madness unfold below.
This article appears in Jan 8-14, 2015.