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bostonguy2004 t1_jameyqx wrote

Reply to comment by Opposite_Match5303 in Open Response to Congresswoman Clark's recent letter by noob_tube03

Do you have a link to that study? That doesn't make any sense.

Also, what about the hot water running through the plastic k-cup and contaminating the coffee with endocrine disruptions and nasty flavors?

This study showing lots of endocrine disruptors, including BPA, in plastic capsule coffee is pretty clear:

"Benzophenone was the most frequently detected estrogenic chemical in capsule coffee (mean concentration ± SD: 20.37 ± 47.07 ng/mL, n = 6), followed by bisphenol A (BPA, 0.31 ± 0.71, n = 4), dibutyl phthalate (1.41 ± 3.58, n = 3), 4-nonylphenol (0.67 ± 1.82, n = 3) and bisphenol F (BPF, 0.49 ± 1.54, n = 2). BPA and BPF were each detected in 3 French press coffee samples (0.29 ± 0.58 and 0.85 ± 1.75 ng/mL, respectively).

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7451997/

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Opposite_Match5303 t1_jamk641 wrote

https://theconversation.com/heres-how-your-cup-of-coffee-contributes-to-climate-change-196648

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bostonguy2004 t1_jamqb5g wrote

Never heard of that website?

And it's not peer-reviewed scientific research, just a news article, so not super reliable, right?

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Opposite_Match5303 t1_jamqs90 wrote

The authors link to the peer-reviewed full study in the article, this is just the readable version https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.12487

This was picked up by major news outlets (WaPo most notably) when it came out.

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bostonguy2004 t1_jamrafx wrote

Thanks for sharing.

It shows that French Press was actually less wasteful than capsule coffee, so not so clear cut as you claimed.

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