CBS News investigation finds some Starbucks cups placed in recycling bins end up in landfills 06:23. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a recycling bin at a restaurant or ...

Cups thrown in Starbucks recycling bin tracked to incinerators 04:54. BOSTON - For the last five weeks, WBZ has been searching for plastic. This is part of a national project from CBS ...

Starbucks uses 10% recycled paper content in its new cups, and aims to double that by 2022. If the retailer decided to source that recycled fiber from its own cups, in the closed loop that it ...

According to Dell, Starbucks’ move away from plastic cups is a “crack in the wall” of the campaign to promote polypropylene recycling — particularly from The Recycling Partnership, an ...

Starbucks uses 3 billion hot drink cups a year. If cities establish better commercial recycling programs and recycling companies find value in the paper, Starbucks will reach its goal of fully ...

Starbucks is a founding partner of one of the Polypropylene Recycling Coalition’s steering committee members, the NextGen Consortium, and has donated millions of dollars to this organization to ...

Starbucks’ self-imposed goal of offering recycling options to its customers in U.S. and Canadian stores by mid-decade is looking like a tall order. In 2008, the Seattle coffee giant, which ...

Jeffrey Meyers of Rumpke Waste and Recycling, which provides service in Ohio, told NBC4 that the company does accept Starbucks and other paper cups for processing.

Starbucks cups are made out of polypropylene, or No. 5 plastic, and Landers told CBS News that these cups are designed to be ...

A Starbucks cup placed in a recycling bin in Plainville, Massachusetts ended up in a landfill in Uniontown, Alabama. CBS ...

Starbucks cups are made out of polypropylene, or No. 5 plastic, and Landers told CBS News that these cups are designed to be recyclable and there are facilities that do this in the U.S. CBS News ...

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 ...