Their solution takes aim at these plastic lids that need centuries to decompose, rather than the plastic-lined paper used in takeaway coffee cups, which the team says takes just 20.

That's why Melbourne engineer Yanni Bouras has been trialling ways to turn old coffee cups into something useful. "As a structural engineer, there's two things I love, coffee and concrete," he said.

Starbucks is experimenting with coffee cups in an attempt to reduce slowly decomposing waste. (Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker) The People’s Republic of Berkeley, California, takes pride in its ...

Nine more single-use plastic items will start being phased out in WA from the end of this month including plastic coffee cups and lids, with the extra expense for sustainable substitutes deemed ...

YORK, Maine — The town's voters will be asked to support a new ban on single-use plastics at the May referendum that excludes cups and lids.. The proposed ordinance was moved to the ballot ...

The biggest is anything plastic – plastic containers, plastic lids, plastic cups. And then it got to a point where we were out. We were out of 20-ounce cups for a month and a half.

Queensland set to ban disposable coffee cups and lids from being sold in cafes; ... Bait bags, plastic dome lids and takeaway containers will then be phased out in September 2025.

Conservative MP Lianne Rood was furious over Tim Hortons replacing some plastic lids. But she should reserve her rage for single-use plastics, which are fuelling growing health concerns ...

Takeaway coffee cup lids will be made from either paper or bagasse, which is a by-product of sugarcane. It is estimated the cost of low-plastic coffee cups is 30 per cent higher than the plastic ...

Coffee lovers in Western Australia could be paying 10-20 per cent more for their caffeine hit - as the state plans to dump plastic coffee cups by February next year.

The UK takeaway-coffee industry alone contributes half a million coffee cups and plastic lids every day, some 2.5 billion every year with only 1 in 400 ever recycled.A further 6 billion cold ...

Polystyrene packaging and takeaway plastic coffee cups and their lids will be outlawed in 2022. It is estimated that Australians throw out about a billion coffee cups each year.