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City of London launches challenge to boost coffee cup recycling
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LONDON, UK – Almost every one of us has carried a take away cup with coffee or tea once in our life. Some of us even every day. In the UK, they throw away 2.5 billion take away cups every year. That is a lot of rubbish that can’t get recycled the right way because of how it’s made.
UK Liberal Democrats target disposable coffee cups in Manifesto pledge
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LONDON, UK – A Liberal Democrat pledge to impose a 5p charge on disposable coffee cups has been blasted as a “knee jerk reaction to the media”. The plan will be included in the party’s manifesto for June’s General Election. It also forms part of a ‘Zero Waste Act’, incorporating a 70% recycling target.
IdealCup coffee couple want to make Motueka a disposable cup-free zone
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MOTUEKA, New Zealand – Steph Fry is starting a revolution against "revolting" disposable coffee cups. The Motueka businesswoman is determined to make the town, west of ...
What can be done to reduce disposable coffee cup waste & increase recycling
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In Great Britain alone, 8 million takeaway coffees are bought every day. That’s a lot of coffee. It’s also a lot of cups (not...
South Koreans’ disposable cup use hits high
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With the increasing popularity of takeaway coffee, South Koreans' use of disposable cups hit a record high last year, while the return rate has...
Where do our coffee cups really end up?
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In the UK, we have got used to getting "What we want, when we want it." So began Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest instalment of his...
TV coffee cup crusade provokes mixed industry response in UK
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Waste management firm Veolia has unveiled plans to develop a new paper-pulping facility in an attempt to address ongoing concerns over disposable cup recycling...
BetterCup Campaign launches in Seattle
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Stand has launched the Better Starbucks Cup Campaign demanding the coffee giant make good on earlier commitments to stop destroying forests. Starbucks serves four billion...
Tokyo-based artist turns disposable into collectible
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Tokyo-based, Australian-born illustrator Adrian Hogan, has turned the disposable into the collectible by painting beautiful panoramic street scenes onto disposable coffee cups. The appeal,...
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