(WAND) — New research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows that a material found in Solo cups and other disposable plastics ... to sort the type of plastic." ...
A university is removing all single-use cups from its campuses following a pilot scheme which "saved 4,500 disposable cups ...
Other potential microplastics sources our experts brought up are fabrics that touch your skin often (clothing, bedding, ...
Lately, synthetic materials like plastic and paper have started replacing these clay cups, as they are cheaper and more convenient for vendors to acquire. But the clay cups still persist in India.
About 99% of paper, plastic, and foam coffee cups end up in the trash, and once they're in the trash, even paper cups can take over 20 years to decompose. So by recycling one waste stream ...
This was the new future – soon they envisaged everyone would only have disposable plastic cups and plates in their homes – it was the cleaner way to live and there would be no more washing up!
More than 700,000 cups were returned here last year. Could deposit machines be coming to more of Europe’s streets?
Examples are things like straws, coffee stirrers, plastic bags, fizzy drink and water bottles and most food packaging. When it comes to recycling paper cups the big coffee chains have made a lot ...