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 ...

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Efforts to collect and sort paper coffee cups for recycling could boost an already high paper recycling rate in the U.S. Florida-based J&J Green Paper is among the companies offering products designed ...

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 short answer is yes and no. While some paper plates can be recycled, the vast majority usually can’t. Rather than throw them away after one use, consider more eco-friendly alternatives. Nearly 220 ...

When plastic straws became a symbol of environmental destruction, Starbucks swiftly came up with a plan: Get rid of them. The company redesigned its cold cup lids so they won’t require a straw at all.

Looks like the shakes at some McDonald’s restaurants aren’t the only things that are thick. Word is the fast food chain’s paper straws introduced a year ago to keep in tune with “protecting the ...

Pushed by the environmental crisis and climate-conscious customers, companies are racing to parade their green credentials and earn themselves some positive headlines in the process. But – as McDonald ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Massive stacks of recycled trash inside Alpine Waste and Recycling towered behind Denver City Councilwoman Kendra Black as she posed a question nearly every ...

The epiphany came when a certain coffee chain started replacing plastic straws with paper ones. Despite increasingly dire warnings about Texas-size islands of plastic in the world’s oceans, the sudden ...