plastic bags, produce wrappings, yogurt and margarine tubs, coffee cups and to-go food containers — were reprocessed at rates of less than five percent. Despite often carrying the recycling ...

Did you know almost 300 billion plastic coffee cups have made their way to rubbish dumps around the world? These cups were not recycled, because they were made from a mixture of paper lined with ...

While much of the body of the coffee cups are made of cardboard, they are usually lined in plastic so the liquid doesn't make the cup soggy. If disposed of in general waste, compostable coffee ...

New research shows Aussie discard more than 9.7 billion pieces of single-use plastic each year. Our coffee cups and plastic bag waste alone lined up end to end would extend a whopping 1.47 million ...

WA is set to phase out disposable plastic coffee cups and plastic lids for hot drinks this year. There is also a proposal to extend a ban on microbeads in rinse-off personal care products to all ...

The ban will see commonplace items such as coffee cups and takeaway containers banned in several states as crackdowns on single-use plastic progress. From September 1, Queensland, South Australia ...

and plastic coffee cups and lids. Chile, Kenya, India and New Zealand have also imposed restrictions on some single-use plastic products, such as bags or cutlery. But there is a warning that the ...