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 ...

When it comes to recycling, most folks know to sort their plastic and paper, thanks to the blue and green plastic sorting bins given out by their municipal departments. But beyond the basics of ...

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Starbucks produces 4 billion single-use paper cups each year. Unfortunately, they are not recyclable in most places. Despite bold sustainable packaging ...

Paper cup recycling will now be available to 1 million Chicago-area residents through Rosemont-based waste management company LRS, which provides blue cart recycling for four of Chicago's six ...

In the UK, only one in every 400 paper coffee cup is recycled. Starbucks is partnering with Frugalpac, a manufacturer of recyclable cups made entirely from recycled paper, to help combat this wasteful ...

Athens residents have previously been asked not to include paper cups with their other recycling, but that is no longer the case. “There's a little layer of plastic in a paper cup. What changed is the ...

Pictured above: Denver Councilwoman Kendra Black; Foodservice Packaging Institute's Lynn Dyer and Natha Dempsey; Alpine Waste & Recycling's Brent Hildebrand; Denver Public Works' Eulois Cleckley and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – Half a million households across Hampton Roads can now recycle clear and dry paper cups along with their ...

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 ...