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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greasy Pizza Boxes Grease and oil are two of the worst contaminants in paper recycling, and greasy pizza boxes are one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After years of looking for greener ...