Considering all of the 160,000 tons of plastic cups and plates produced in the U.S. in 2018 — the last year for which federal data is available — about 81% was landfilled, and 19% was burned.

"Health issues related to microplastics and PFAS will not disappear on their own, and the health burden will only be ...

Why now: Some advocacy groups have suggested that the transition away from polypropylene plastic cups is connected to Starbucks’ own sustainability targets — specifically, a goal the company ...

As for Starbucks’ plastic cups, it’s unclear whether and when they will be phased out from the more than 16,000 locations in the U.S. that are still offering them.

It looks like plastic, it feels like plastic, and it holds your favorite beverage like plastic. But somewhere on the cup you’ve been handed is a label that reads “100 percent compostable”.

A layer of plastic on paper cups used to keep hot drinks away from skin could be leaching toxic chemicals. Laura Baisas Sep 5, 2023 2:00 PM EDT ...

Being a certain type of polystyrene—and this is his point—the cup splinters into a strange bloom of shards arrayed about the cup’s circular bottom. No butadiene, I think.

The Seattle-based coffee company announced this week that about 580 of its stores had begun replacing its cold drinks cups — typically made out of polypropylene, a type of rigid plastic — with ...