8 ways you are killing the environment that you didn't even realize

By now you've probably heard that the inventor of the Keurig coffee maker really wishes he hadn't because of the ecological damage caused by the K-cup. If you haven't, the single-use, nonrecyclable cups are clogging landfills. Last year, more than 13 billion K-Cups were tossed.
 
Business Insider reports that is but one way you could be unwittingly causing irreversible environmental destruction. There are at least seven others, the report points out.
 
Plastic water bottles are well-known polluters. But did you know the microbeads in your facial soap or toothpaste are starving ocean coral reefs to death, or that it takes nearly four million trees a year to make the disposable chopsticks you can't use and toss out in favor of a fork?

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