Friday, September 05, 2025

The K Cup Keurig Microplastics Debacle

 I am too tired from illness to spend much time reading about the villain.  He has affected me, and I concede.  I will not give up with my scant local health care, each day yielding yet another source of potential sickness.  Green in the Keurig.  Blue on my bread.  Chunks in my milk.  Black on my faucet.  The Amish and other puritan early Americans had the right idea.  My Keurig coffee machine now sits in the garbage can, so those plastic pods no longer can leech dangerous micro particles into my testicles.  It is an equation straight from hell.  Dangerous plastic, hot water, and whatever you call coffee.  Did anyone else get this memo?  I'm keeping the Nespresso, because unlike Keurig their pods are made of food grade aluminum.  I am taking the risk, because I need and like quick espresso fixes.  Whatever is in that Starbucks coffee bag along with NICE spring water and a Fabreware percolator (my old tried and true), at least I am cutting the supply line to tainted coffee in my belly.  I began with PFAS laden ice cubes.  When I had a new kitchen floor installed, Rex caused my water line to the ice maker to begin leaking.  (I all ready had repaired this once with a pressure fitting)  After contemplating fixing it again, and I bought the parts, I decided not to.  I turned the water off underneath the sink, and began using my silicone ice cube trays again.  Bottled water.  Bottled water in glass containers is best.  A case of Aqua Panna at the Sprouts is $36.00.  That's twelve bottles of 1 liter?  After buying a case of Topo Chico Mexican carbonated mineral water, and thinking I was making a good decision for $17.00, I read that it has the highest PFAS level of ALL bottled water.  I think the ragweed got me.  I have been sick for three days with pain that is incomparable.  Maybe it was a kidney stone.  Did anyone else get the memo on the Keurig?