A recent study finds that disposable cups may be contaminating our daily brew.

A growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies. What started as a small trend among San ...

Cincinnati-based Rumpke Waste & Recycling has announced that it will begin accepting disposable paper, plastic and aluminum cups in most of its curbside and drop-box recycling programs. According to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to ...

Rumpke Waste & Recycling is now accepting reusable plastic, paper and aluminum cups through its recycling program, with a few exceptions. It's the second time in two years the company has announced ...

Is any item more symbolic of our modern, disposable culture than the single-use coffee cup? In March 2016, they were vilified in celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “War on Waste” campaign, ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg say replacing single-use plastic cups with paper ones may raise environmental and health problems. Many companies have switched to using disposable paper ...

In recent years, drink chains have switched their single-use cups from plastic to paper to avoid plastic pollution and pile-ups in landfills. But according to recent research, the plastic cup that we ...

On a recent morning, Chelsie Nalley’s go-to Starbucks in Chattanooga, Tenn., left her high and dry. The store had plenty of coffee, she said, but none of her favorite 24-ounce cups. Ms. Nalley called ...

Kristina Smithe was running the California International Marathon in 2019, grabbing cups of water to stay hydrated, when she started to think about how much waste such events produce. On the flight ...