Henry Griffith

The CPRC's August 2026 Community Magazine cover We are excited to share that The Coffee Pod Recycling Co. has been featured on the cover of Community Magazine’s August issue for Holmdel and Colts Neck! For a company that began as a student-led idea to solve a simple problem—making single-use coffee pods easier to recycle—seeing CPRC on the cover of a magazine serving our own community is an incredible milestone. The feature tells the story of how CPRC grew from an idea into a real business...

The past month has been an exciting one for the Coffee Pod Recycling Company. As CPRC continues working to make coffee-pod recycling simpler, more accessible, and more practical, we have also had new opportunities to share our mission with the wider community. Over the last several weeks, our team filmed a video with New Jersey State Senator Vin Gopal and participated in a professional photoshoot for the cover of Community Magazine. Both experiences represented important milestones for our...

Image attributed to Shark Tank When we first applied to Shark Tank, we knew it was a long shot. Thousands of businesses apply every year. Some are already well-funded. Some have full-time teams. Some have years of sales behind them. We were a student-founded coffee pod recycling company built from a school design project, a 3D printer, a mission to reduce coffee pod waste, and a belief that a small idea could solve a real environmental problem. And somehow, CPRC made it through three rounds...