A Starbucks coffee drink sits in an open microwave. - vatathara/Shutterstock Let's set the scene: You go to get coffee with a friend in the morning but then have to rush home to work. You realize you ...

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. A recently ...

Are name-brand paper towels worth the extra money? Consumer Reports’ testers just spent weeks putting six popular paper towel brands through a series of pick-up, strength, and absorbency tests to find ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Paper, plastic, with straws or without, Starbucks’ cups inspire a lot of passion in the coffee shop’s customers. The commonly seen cups have been the subject of hundreds, if ...

Replacing single use plastic cups with paper ones is problematic. Researchers show that a paper cup that ends up in nature can also cause damage as they also contain toxic chemicals. Replacing single ...

Are name-brand paper towels worth the extra money? Consumer Reports can tell you.Its testers just spent weeks putting six popular paper towel brands -- including Bounty, Brawny, and Scott through a ...

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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 ...