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 ...

Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, has announced that it is accepting mixed paper bales that contain single-use polyethylene- (PE-) coated paper cups at its recycled paper mills in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and ...

Most disposable coffee cups contain a thin plastic coating that can shed microplastic particles when exposed to hot drinks, posing hidden health risks including inflammation and hormonal disruption.

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 ...