Oh Keurig, you beautiful, convenient coffee machine. I loved you my freshman year, especially when you made my dorm room ~cozy~ and allowed me to literally wake up and smell the coffee. But alas, like most things, your time in the tReNdY spotlight has come to an end (hopefully).

Having a “fresh” cup of coffee before that 8 a.m. you mistakenly signed up for is a wonderful thing. I get it. However, that $75 you have to spend on a single cup Keurig plus the crazy amount of overpriced K-cups you’ll buy over your time as an owner is just not worth it.

It’s easy as busy consumers, to forget to question where our belongings come from before us and where they end up after, but in a time where sustainability is all the rage and being mindful of what goes into our bodies is so in, Keurigs need to be so out.

1. Wake up and smell the Chemicals

The extent of chemicals that land themselves a spot in your coffee mug outnumber the benefits of any amount of caffeine it could offer. The aluminum foil tops of the K-cup are linked to many issues- anxiety and depression just being two. Although Keurig proudly states that their cups are BPA-Free, the “safe” plastic they claim to be using has been proven harmful when exposed to heat in a 2011 Environmental Health Prospect study.

2. What a Waste

The cups haven’t been made biodegradable yet, and they aren’t projected to switch over to 100 percent recyclable until 2020. That’s a whole other class that’s come and gone through App State. Imagine all of the K-cups we’ll go through in four more years. In the 2014 article "Your Coffee Pods' Dirty Secret" from Mother Jones, Green Mountain produced enough K-cups (8.3 billion) to wrap around the world 10.5 times. At that rate we’ll be over 33 billion extra K-cups deeper in the next four years.

3. The inventor doesn’t even own One

In a 2015 interview with the Huffington Post John Sylvan is quoted saying, “I don’t have one. They’re kind of expensive to use ... it’s not like drip coffee is tough to make.” The man had a brilliant idea, I’ll give him that. But frankly, until Keurig can catch up with the times, it no longer has a spot on my counter. Plus, who wants to own something its inventor can’t even get behind?

Out with the old, in with the New:

In replace of my Keurig I’ve found another single cup coffee maker from Bella for only $20 at Best Buy. It has a reusable filter, so the only waste is the coffee grounds- which according to this article from Oregon State are totally compostable!