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.

Love coffee but care about the environment? Then you may have a dilemma. An estimated 60 billion paper cups in the U.S. end up in landfills every year because they can't be recycled easily.

Most paper cups are made from cardboard with a thin layer of plastic tightly attached on to the cup. This keeps the drink warm and prevents the cardboard from becoming soggy. But it also makes the ...

Nissin Foods, the company behind Cup Noodles, announced Thursday it is introducing a new paper cup design in early 2024, replacing the current polystyrene cup, that'll make the cups microwavable ...

paper cups may also be problematic for the environment. A study published in the August issue of the journal Environmental Pollution found that many paper cups are coated with a thin coating of ...

On Thursday, Chobani announced that its single-serve Oat Blend yogurts will be shedding their plastic packaging in favor of paper cups as part of the brand's efforts to be more sustainable.

And yet sometimes it doesn’t. There is a very simple thing that you can do to a paper cup to keep it from catching fire even if you take a blowtorch to it. This weekend, amaze your BBQ pals with ...

Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post Denver councilwoman Kendra Black (left) and Lynn Dyer, president of Foodservice Packaging Institute, celebrate the city adding paper coffee cups to the list of items ...

Dixie cups were like the Zoom of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, which helped the product become a household name. In 1907, Boston attorney Lawrence Luellen created a cup. It wasn’t made of ...

This alarming animation shows the rate at which paper coffee cups are bought in the UK – with over 100 purchased every single second. The tool shows a pile of standard-sized, 11cm tall paper ...