You'll soon be able to make ramen noodles without boiling water first. Nissin Foods, the company behind Cup Noodles, announced Thursday it is introducing a new paper cup design in early 2024, ...

“Paper” cups often contain plastic to make them water resistant. This means many products that are mostly paper still contribute to global plastic pollution. But a new product uses pineapple leaves to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For more than 10 years, steps have been taken in North America to move post- consumer paper cups into residential and commercial recycling streams. The pace of change has picked up significantly in ...

Earlier this year, Starbucks sent 18 truckloads of old paper cups to a paper mill in Wisconsin to prove a point: Contrary to a widespread myth, paper coffee cups can be recycled cost-effectively. The ...

Following the MRF Committee’s Feb. 27 approval, the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) board of directors will consider making changes to its existing specifications for single- and dual-stream ...