Many coffee shops will collect them for recycling—but having to drop paper cups off takes the convenience out of a single-use product. Today, only four out of every 100 paper cups are recycled ...

Denver councilwoman Kendra Black (left) and Lynn Dyer, president of Foodservice Packaging Institute, celebrate the city adding paper coffee cups to the list of items that can be recycled on Friday ...

Drinking coffee from paper cups is not only harmful to our environment, but potentially harmful to our mental state, as well. See how you can make positive changes in both areas.

To tackle the problem, a group of British lawmakers is calling for a new £0.25 ($0.34) tax on disposable coffee cups. They hope a "latte levy" would force consumers to use recyclable cups and ...

Disposable coffee cup recycling breakthrough turns paper cups into 'durable' resin. Less than 0.25 per cent of the estimated 3 billion paper cups used each year in the UK are currently recycled.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Paper, plastic, with straws or without, Starbucks’ cups inspire a lot of passion in the coffee shop’s customers. The commonly seen cups have been the subject of ...

In the U.K. alone, around 2.5 billion coffee cups are used and thrown away every single year. As of 2017, less than one in 400, or 0.25%, are getting recycled. Conventional takeaway coffee cups ...

GaeaStar’s 3D-printed disposable clay cups are available in the US for the first time today, but only at Verve Coffee shops in San Francisco.

But the Golden Age of the disposable coffee cup seems to have been the '60s, when four major things happened: the foam cup, the Anthora cup, the tearable lid, and 7-Eleven.