At a third company, Seda, the board was printed with the Starbucks logo and shaped ... like milk cartons. Coffee cups actually yield higher-quality fiber than some other paper products.

“The recyclable logo just means it’s possible to be ... facilities in the UK that can process polyethylene-infused paper coffee cups, and neither are specialised for this purpose.

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.

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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 ...

However, the boom in coffee culture comes with an environmental cost. With almost half of coffees and hot drinks now sold in disposable cups, a massive 2.5 billion coffee cups are used and thrown ...