Mealey's (September 29, 2020, 2:55 PM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge in California on Sept. 21 certified a class of consumers who purchase coffee pods for use with Keurig Green Mountain Inc.'s coffee makers and accuse the company of violating California's unfair competition law (UCL) and other state laws by marketing its K-Cups as recyclable even though less than 60 percent of recycling facilities will accept the product and their size prevents them from being properly sorted by recycling programs (Kathleen Smith v. Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., No. 18-6690, N.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 172826)....