Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, and 7 are more difficult.

Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or coffee shop, it will be recycled and turned into something new. However, a CBS News investigation ...

Napa Starbucks customers will notice something different these days when they pick up their favorite hot or cold beverage. Instead of the usual paper hot cup or thinner clear plastic cold cup, coffee ...

Reduce, reuse, recycle — it’s an exhortation that’s become universal. For decades, the phrase has been used on posters and public service announcements, encouraging well-meaning citizens to cut down ...

World, a U.S. leader in reusable foodware solutions, marks a major milestone with the elimination of 20 million single-use ...

ASU, in collaboration with Starbucks, is taking strides to decrease plastic waste by replacing single-use plastic cups with reusable cups at the nine participating Starbucks locations on ASU campuses.

Coffee shops are everywhere and so are those take-out cups. They even make reusable cups that look like the throw-away kind. If yours is reusable, wash it and reuse it. But if it is cardboard, plastic ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Paper, plastic, with straws or without, Starbucks’ cups inspire a lot of passion in the coffee shop’s customers. The commonly seen cups have been the subject of hundreds, if ...

Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic.

Coffee shops are everywhere and so are those take-out cups. They even make reusable cups that look like the throw-away kind. If yours is reusable, wash it and reuse it. But if it is cardboard, plastic ...