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For more than 10 years, steps have been taken in North America to move post- consumer paper cups into residential and commercial recycling streams. The pace of change has picked up significantly in ...

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 hundreds, if ...

The world goes through hundreds of billions of single-use coffee cups every year—and most aren’t recycled. So major coffee chains’ switch to paper cups is a good step, right? Not quite. A recently ...

This week, the NextGen Consortium — an industry collaboration managed by Closed Loop Partners aimed at eliminating single-use foodservice packaging waste by advancing the design, commercialization and ...

In winter, people consume a lot of tea and coffee. Now people have started using disposable cups for tea and coffee. People believe that disposable paper cups are good for health. But doctors have an ...

The company’s Savannah River mill in Rincon, Georgia, now accepts polycoated paper cups in its mixed paper feedstock for recycling. Georgia-Pacific's Savannah River paper mill in Rincon, Georgia, now ...

Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic.