K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
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The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.
The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.
The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.
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