Some of them have been tossing coffee cup lids in their own blue boxes. "I know I was still putting the coffee cup lids and black plastic from restaurants into the recycling," said Tom Jackson ...

For chains like Starbucks, which goes through about 6 billion cups a year, this represents no less than an existential dilemma. Dunkin’ recently renamed itself to de-emphasize its doughnut origins and ...

The city no longer wants you to put coffee cup lids, black plastic or Styrofoam in the blue box — despite spending years encouraging residents to recycle those items. The low-grade plastics are ...

CBS News investigation finds some Starbucks cups placed in recycling bins end up in landfills Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or coffee ...

In addition to using less plastic for the cups themselves — Starbucks projects the new cups will save more than 13.5 million pounds of plastic going to landfills annually — it is “projected ...

The coffee shop has started serving drinks in glass and ceramic cups for customers who stay inside. Cape Cod Beer, a brewery in Massachusetts, has a shortage of 16-ounce plastic cups. The owner is ...

The chain announced that the plastic cups for all sizes of its cold drinks have undergone an environmentally friendly redesign that uses up to 20% less plastic compared to the current version.