K-cups and other coffee pods have been hindering recycling efforts for years. The small, single-use plastic containers are used easily and frequently and immediately thrown away afterward. According ...

Waste and recycling company WM has added plastic cups made of polypropylene (PP) and paper to-go cups to its universal list of accepted recyclable materials, meaning residents can recycle to-go cups ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the US. Single-serve coffee ...

There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing systems — which allow consumers to make just one cup of coffee at a time by feeding a pod into a slot and ...

Britain gets through a staggeringly large number of disposable coffee cups every year. It's been estimated around 2.5 billion of these cups are disposed of every year in the UK – with just 0.25% of ...

Plastic and Paper Cups from Companies Nationwide Now Accepted in More Local Recycling Programs HOUSTON, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WM (NYSE: WM), North America's leading environmental solutions ...