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Environmental burden of coffee: are you taking about transport costs to wherever you are, or something else?

Not OP, but coffee is really high on water use, and can be a big cause of deforestation in some cases. So they're probably getting at this.

Apparently producing coffee beans for one large coffee uses 140kg of water. Ok, that sounds like a lot.

But also apparently producing one meal worth of chicken takes 700kg of water. Over 3000kg of water for beef. So I think, in comparison, coffee water use if negligible.

The excess coffee used at home vs the precise amount in a Nespresso pod is the driver of that delta that I was referring to.

The overall issue is that coffee pod waste is de minimus compared to the environmental impact of the coffee industry at large.

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