It notes that more than 3,000 paper coffee cups are thrown out every day on campus, although there are programs in place to recycle or compost many of those cups.

In a five-hour span, 45,000 cups were collected. Paul Henderson, Metro Vancouver's manager for solid waste, says that paper cup usage around Vancouver needs to be reduced.

Paper coffee cups are lined with plastic or wax so they can't go in the Blue Bin (recycling). Put disposable coffee cups in the garbage. Non-black plastic lids and paper sleeves can be removed and ...

Carbon Neutral Shredding owner Ian Chandler in his truck with shredded coffee cups. — Dan Pearce/Torstar Carbon Neutral has been doing this since 2012 and has “never had a rejection from the paper ...

Coffee cup waste was also in the news in the UK in March, where a Cardiff University study came to the conclusion that a 5p charge placed on all cups sold had the potential to cut waste by 300 ...

The City of Calgary announced Tuesday disposable paper coffee cups will now be accepted in blue cart recycling bins. “Residents have been asking us about coffee cup recycling for some time ...

A London-area federal MP is drawing ridicule after publishing an online video slamming the “woke” paper lids now on Tim Hortons coffee cups. Lianne Rood, who represents Lambton-Kent-Middlesex ...

The commonly seen cups have been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on social media. However, some recent posts allege that Starbucks paper coffee cups are not recyclable.