I know a lot of people love their Keurig machines, but I have yet to get a cup of coffee from one that wowed me. The coffee that comes from the machine at our Little League stand is always weak, and even the few cups I’ve had from my friend’s machine in her kitchen have been kind of blah.

Because of this, I’ve never been tempted to buy one of the machines that brews one cup of coffee at a time, but their popularity is growing, and so is the waste that the one-time use cups create.

The statistics on coffee pods, according to Mother Jones, should have our attention.

Consumers spent $3.1 billion in coffee pods last year, up from $132 million in 2008.

In 2013, Green Mountain (owner of Keurig) produced 8.3 billion single-use pods, called K-Cups, enough to wrap around the equator 10.5 times.

Currently, only 5 percent of Green Mountain’s coffee pods are recyclable.