'The future of Keurig' is replacing K-Cup with more sustainable coffee tablets, the company says, starting with its new Alta machine — but don't worry, you'll still be able to buy K-Cups for a while

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Keurig Alta is a single-brew system that uses tablets of compressed coffee

AltaRounds are compostable, and are brewed in the Keurig Alta machine

The Alta machine is also fully backward-compatible with K-Cups

Keurig is famous for its K-Cup coffee pods, but it's breaking away from the traditional capsule format with a single-serve system called Alta that uses tablets of compressed coffee with no individual packaging. According to a press release, "Keurig Alta represents the future of single-serve…