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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee

How environmentally destructive is our thirst for coffee? Tim and the team investigate a claim that 29,000 coffee pods end up in landfill globally every minute with the help of Dr Ying Jiang, a senior lecturer in bioenergy from Cranfield University in the UK.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Perisha Kudhail
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound engineer: Neil Churchill
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown

(Photo: coffee pod machine brewing coffee. Credit: Getty Images)

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Mon 27 Feb 202310:50GMT
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