While K-Cups are convenient to use, the single-serving coffee pods aren’t as easy on the environment. Researchers and environmental activists are alarmed about the impacts of packaging for K-Cups as ...

The redesign is the company’s latest effort to reduce the environmental impacts from its cups, which have been criticized for piling up waste. The new cups were developed internally at Starbucks ...

In addition to using less plastic for the cups themselves — Starbucks projects the new cups will save more than 13.5 million pounds of plastic going to landfills annually — it is “projected ...

CBS News investigation finds some Starbucks cups placed in recycling bins end up in landfills 06:23. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or ...

In recent years, drink chains have switched their single-use cups from plastic to paper to avoid plastic pollution and pile-ups in landfills. But according to recent research, the plastic cup that ...

As single-use plastic piles up in landfills and pollutes oceans, event spaces are turning to food packaging that can be washed and reused hundreds of times.

Select Starbucks locations in 14 states have stopped using plastic cold drink cups, switching to compostable fiber-based alternatives. The change is due to local regulations and Starbucks ...

The redesign is the company's latest effort to reduce the environmental impacts from its cups, which have been criticized for piling up waste. The new cups were developed internally at Starbucks ...

The redesign is the company’s latest effort to reduce the environmental impacts from its cups, which have been criticized for piling up waste. The new cups were developed internally at Starbucks ...

The chain announced that the plastic cups for all sizes of its cold drinks have undergone an environmentally friendly redesign that uses up to 20% less plastic compared to the current version.