We’ve all done it. You’re in line at a coffee shop but forgot your travel mug at the office. You wait to order, trying to decide between buying a new $40 reusable mug at the counter or walking out ...

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Are you a coffee lover and your day starts and ends with a hot cup of coffee? While drinking your favourite hot beverage in a ceramic, glass or metal cup is perfectly okay, many people pour their ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars ...

Drinking coffee from paper cups is not only harmful to our environment, but potentially harmful to our mental state, as well. See how you can make positive changes in both areas. Coffee shop! Run in.

Britain gets through a staggeringly large number of disposable coffee cups every year. It's been estimated around 2.5 billion of these cups are disposed of every year in the UK – with just 0.25% of ...

Written by Bronwen Eastaugh as part of the Sustainability Series. In the UK 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups are used, equivalent to 30,000 tonnes. How many disposable coffee cups we’re using and ...

Is any item more symbolic of our modern, disposable culture than the single-use coffee cup? In March 2016, they were vilified in celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “War on Waste” campaign, ...

These cafes are determined to steer customer habits back away from single-use cups Almost everyone has a reusable cup (or three) in their kitchen cupboard, but the convenience of disposable cups often ...