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07-25-2018 DESIGN. Is this the disposable cup of the future? One designer wants to popularize cups that are grown, not manufactured. SHARE. Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky X Link ...

We’ve all sipped a drink from a paper cup that boasts *the* design. You know the one, the thick teal-ish brush stroke, accented with a thin violet squiggle. It’s very ’90s, very Saved By the ...

Britons throw away 2.5 billion coffee cups a year, according to ButterflyCup. This amounts to some 5000 every minute and only one in every 400 is recycled. Most cups are not recycled because their ...

Have you ever stopped to look at your disposable coffee lid? ... By the 1980s, however, the proliferation of takeout coffee was transforming the cup design industry.

The problem isn't just the paper, but the cup's waterproof lining. Inventing a truly eco-friendly coffee cup is no small feat, and the stakes are huge. Consumers go through an estimated 600 ...

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.

By and large, New York City is not the place where people “stay” for coffee. They drink it in transit, in subway cars and yellow cabs; and even when stationed at their office desks, New Yorkers are ...

Gina Ekiss, of Aurora, Missouri, designed the original artwork with charcoal. — -- Remember those jazzy wax paper cups with their awesome teal and purple squiggle design? They were so ...

KeepCup, which claims to be “the world’s first barista standard reusable coffee cup,” has arrived on the shores of Italy, bringing to 32 the number of countries where the cup is now available.