it was only a matter of time before businesses started turning their attention to the design of their top export: the disposable coffee cup. Cafes have recently started treating these take away ...

Company founder Tommy McLoughlin hopes the design will “lift the lid on the eco disaster” in which disposable cups plays a increasing role. Britons throw away 2.5 billion coffee cups a year, according ...

“I don’t care so much for big chains as it’s design by committee.” So what inspired the photographer to start obsessively collecting paper coffee cups from his world travels? Hargreaves ...

Have you ever stopped to look at your disposable coffee lid? ... By the 1980s, however, the proliferation of takeout coffee was transforming the cup design industry.

Their solution takes aim at these plastic lids that need centuries to decompose, rather than the plastic-lined paper used in takeaway coffee cups, which the team says takes just 20.

The seemingly simple coffee cup sleeve represents the genius of design. Perrin Doniger Housed in the same building as Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” and Andy Warhol’s “Campbell ...

Inventing a truly eco-friendly coffee cup is no small feat, and the stakes are huge. Consumers go through an estimated 600 billion paper and plastic cups per year worldwide.

I buy many cups of coffee and habitually cringe when reaching for a plastic lid. It’s pretty hypocritical to make a point of avoiding Styrofoam, only to slap a petroleum disc on a paper cup ...

Two pilot projects in Western Sydney will use more than 135,000 recycled paper cups including coffee cups, which made up 85 per cent of all paper cups collected for recycling in the participating ...

Have you ever stopped to look at your disposable coffee lid? ... By the 1980s, however, the proliferation of takeout coffee was transforming the cup design industry.