Awareness has grown in recent years of the issues surrounding plastic waste, which includes polyethylene-lined disposable coffee cups. Chancellor Philip Hammond expressed support for charges on ...

Disposable coffee cups are a nightmare for the environment: Most end up in landfill sites, and putting them in the paper recycling bin makes matters worse because they can't be easily processed.

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Every day hundreds of thousands of Britons put their coffee cup into a recycling bin. They're wrong - those cups aren't recyclable, and the UK throws away 2.5bn of them a year. It must stop ...

Since last year, when we were all made aware of the UK's unrecycled cup mountain, some of us have found it hard to buy a takeaway coffee without being wracked with guilt. In the UK, we throw away ...

The UK's biggest coffee chain Costa Coffee has said it will recycle as many disposable cups as it sells by 2020 in a "cup recycling revolution". Under the scheme, 500 million coffee cups a year ...

It's gradually becoming common knowledge that it's not as easy to recycle your takeaway coffee cup as people may have thought. It's the mixture of paper and plastic in their inner lining ...

One of the most charming things about the coffee kiosk I frequent every morning on my way to work is that they've nicknamed me "pink cup lady." Recently, the barista apologised and asked me my ...

There is the capacity for all the paper cups we use to be recycled in the UK. The problem is that customers don’t put them in the right bins. Worldwide we drink over 1.6 billion cups of coffee ...

Waitrose is to stop using disposable coffee cups as part of its drive to reduce plastics and packaging. The company said the initiative will be rolled out to all stores by the autumn - saving more ...

In the UK we get through around 7m disposable coffee cups every day – in a year that stacks up to a staggering 2.5 billion. These cups can’t be recycled because the linings are made from ...