Recycling Used K-cups

We've been gathering ideas for you to recycle those used k-cups. Here are our favorite ideas:

• Use them to hold finger paints, if the pod has a hole punched in the bottom, dry it off very well and place some good tape over it to keep the paint from leaking out.
• Make your own place-card holders for dinner parties by wrapping cute paper around the K-Cups. Cut slits on the bottom to hold the cards.
• Use to start vegetable seedlings.
• Use them to create stampers.

Or you can purchase a reusable coffee filter system to use in your Keurig.

What ways have you reused your k-cups?

Upcycle/Recycle Used K-cups

Single serve coffee makers are great, convenient, and awesome in that you can use a different flavored k-cup every time. You aren't stuck to using the same flavor coffee until you replace the bag. But that is a lot of k-cups to throw away. Even if you just drink one cup of coffee each morning that is 365 a year that are thrown away.

So what can you do with those k-cups?

Here is one idea:

Use for starting small seedlings:

Perforate the bottom of the k-cup. Place in a tray of sand. Fill with soil and place one seed into each pod.

Reuse these guys.