It's obvious that the lid on your takeaway cup is there to stop your drink from spilling - but people are only just discovering their second hidden purpose. The plastic lids, which can be found on ...

Western Australia is set to ban certain cups normally used for takeaway coffee as part of ongoing efforts to stamp out single-use plastic. From 27 February, the cups — which are also widely used ...

When trying to assess the environmental impact of takeaway coffee cups, most experiments have focused on plastic lids and polystyrene cups. Paper cups have long been spared scrutiny. To address ...

Drinking a cup of takeaway coffee once a week could expose you to some 90,000 potentially harmful plastic particles each year, new research shows. Thousands of microplastic particles were found to ...

Reporters placed plastic cold drink cups, embedded with trackers ... and for customers to take away. "The more we can offer customers to sit and stay, that takes a tremendous amount of single ...

Edible takeaway cups and library-style mug-borrowing schemes are on the menu at a growing number of cafes as possible solutions to Australia's addiction to plastic convenience. Victoria's ban ...

Starbucks has begun introducing a new environmentally friendly white takeaway cup in parts of Europe. The updated version replaces the previous plastic interior lining with a coating made from ...

These single-use paper cups have a plastic lining (to keep hot coffee contained) and it’s basically impossible to separate the paper from the lining, meaning takeaway coffee cups are destined ...