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 ...

British inventor Martin Myerscough was puzzled by this and has now come up with an alternative to make the recycling process easier. Most paper cups are made from cardboard with a thin layer of ...

“Paper” cups often contain plastic to make them water resistant. This means many products that are mostly paper still contribute to global plastic pollution. But a new product uses pineapple leaves to ...

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 ...