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Recyclable Coffee Pods, Delta Beats Alaska in Performance Study

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By Lauren Mang April 13, 2015

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Seattle Seahawks players took a trip to Maui for their annual training camp. King 5 News has photos of all the fun (plus a video of the guys playing Marco Polo in the pool!) right here

Last month, after a semi-truck full of frozen salmon overturned on the Alaskan Way Viaduct causing traffic snarls throughout the city and prompting the hashtag #TraffishJam to trend on Twitter, the city received a bit of a wake up call. MyNorthwest.com reports that city administration admitted “it had no response plans ready” to handle such a catastrophic road closure. Now, they’ve hired a consultant to help put some policies and protocols in place. 

Keurigs and other single-serve coffee machines are great, but the plastic or aluminum pods that contain the coffee are a point of contention for many because they can’t be recycled. According to Crosscut, Canadian coffee roaster Club Coffee has unveiled a product to hopefully solve this dilemma for good: the PurPod100. The coffee-filled capsule is made up of “renewable, bio-based materials that are fully compostable: so-called “chaff” (from the skin of the coffee bean that comes off during the roasting process).” PurPod is compatible with the Keurig (Nespresso users will have to wait for a version that will work with their machines) and is expected to hit shelves in the next few weeks.

Fierce competition in the friendly skies: An annual performance study, which ranks airlines based on criteria such as on-time flights, baggage complaints and customer service quality, has placed Delta Air Lines at number 3. How did our hometown hero Alaska Airlines fare? It ranked below its behemoth competitor at number 5. 

 

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