Have you ever stood in front of the trash can with your Starbucks cup and wondered whether to toss it in the garbage or in the recycling bin? You’re not alone. Until recently, the right answer has ...

The Virginia-based residential recycling company will use new AI optical sorting technology made possible through a grant from the Foodservice Packaging Institute and NextGen Consortium. TFC Recycling ...

When you drop that used white paper cup into the bin next to the door at a Starbucks, have you done your part to save the planet? Starbucks has long hoped that you would think so. After all, there's ...

Sonoco Products Company SON aims to accelerate recycling opportunities for paper cups in bales of residential mixed paper, which will be used as raw material for the company’s Hartsville, S.C., ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – Half a million households across Hampton Roads can now recycle clear and dry paper cups along with their other accepted items. TFC Recycling, one of Virginia’s largest ...

Disposable cups made from paper, plastic and aluminum are now accepted in the Licking County Recycling public drop off recycling sites. Licking County Recycling recently entered into a new contract ...

Not all plastic is recyclable. After you've downed your drink and you're deciding what bin to toss it in, it's important to remember that not every plastic cup gets to go into that bright blue bin ...

Pictured above: Denver Councilwoman Kendra Black; Foodservice Packaging Institute's Lynn Dyer and Natha Dempsey; Alpine Waste & Recycling's Brent Hildebrand; Denver Public Works' Eulois Cleckley and ...

After years of looking for greener alternatives to its paper cup — which is lined with plastic — Starbucks is testing out something new. The company announced on Wednesday that it is testing out a ...

Companies like Starbucks and McDonald’s have been trying for 30 years to recycle those single-use polyethylene-coated paper cups, the kind that coffee comes in. It turns out the impossible just takes ...