A coffee cup that can be easily recycled

The war on plastic waste receives a massive boost today with the launch of the world’s first easy-to-recycle coffee cup – which could soon be available in Starbucks.

The coffee craze sweeping Britain means we plough through an astonishing 2.5 billion plastic-coated paper cups a year – virtually all of which end up in landfill sites or get blown into the sea because they’re so hard to recycle.

But MPs and campaigners are hopeful that the coffee cup recycling rate could be about to soar if the new recyclable model takes off.

Caroline Lucas MP, co-leader of the Green Party, said: “This is a great example of the kind of creative thinking and new ideas we need to tackle the plastic crisis.”

“Alongside efforts to massively reduce waste and plastic use in the first place, cups like this can play a role in helping to protect our natural world,” she added.
Friends of the Earth chief executive Craig Bennett, added: “Fully recyclable coffee cups should be the norm. So, it’s good to see products being developed which will help to achieve that.”

Only one in 400 of the seven million throwaway paper cups Britain gets through a day are being recycled because they are so tightly coated in plastic that only two of the country’s 47 paper mills is able to recycle them.

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