Coffee cups, plastic bags, meal kit packaging: Here's what to do with hard to recycle items One in four items tossed into recycling bins aren't actually recyclable. By Katherine Sacks.

Polystyrene makes comeback in US Congress building after Republicans reverse green initiatives brought in by Democrats.

A new study has shown that coffee cups lined with a plastic film on the inside can release trillions of particles into boiling water. N. Hanacek/NIST. View 2 Images 1 / 2.

The government's "war on plastic" came to an abrupt halt this week when it decided not to introduce a 25p levy on disposable coffee cups.It will instead be relying on voluntary action from ...

Antimicrobial reusable coffee cups are safer to use than ordinary plastic reusable cups, according to independent research undertaken by microbiologists at Aston University in Birmingham.

A PhD student at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has come up with a way to turn waste coffee into biodegradable coffee cups. It hinges on a process which converts mannose, the prevalent ...

The growing backlash against plastic waste has a new target: paper coffee cups. Paper cups sourced from sustainable forests have for years been hailed as a more environmentally friendly option ...

At Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, Dominik Kopp, a Ph.D. student, has developed a method for turning coffee waste into biodegradable plastic coffee cups. Because of its properties ...

Takeaway coffee cups for dine-in customers will be discouraged at cafes on council land, as part of Greater Dandenong’s ...