As demand for sustainable alternatives in the coffee industry grows, PHA cups are coming to the forefront. These multi-use cups are made from pure PHA, a biopolymer that is both compostable and marine ...

While more companies are ordering Better for All’s land and marine compostable cups compared to five years ago, the cups’ base biopolymer P-Hydroxy-Benzoate Hydroxylase (PHBH) is roughly 1.6 times ...

Starbucks is once again causing cup controversy, not with their annual Christmas cups, but rather the new compostable cups now being used for iced drinks. The Seattle-based coffee chain has been ...

In collaboration with the Office of Sustainability and as part of UB’s Climate Action Plan, Campus Dining & Shops has switched to new compostable cups with drink-thru lids at all its retail dining ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — For The Daily, sustainability can be as simple as the cup customers drink from. Nestled on King Street, in a small plaza that includes Charleston Union Station and Hed Hi ...

What are Compostable Cups? Why Get Them? If something is compostable, that means it can break down into nutrient-rich soil when exposed to the right conditions. Organic materials like grass, leaves, ...

Greg Pryor of the composting company Recology holds a handful of processed compost at the integrated waste management's compost site in the San Joaquin Valley town of Vernalis in June. He tries to get ...

California roaster processed 40.9 million pounds of coffee while training over 11,000 farmers in sustainability ...

Starbucks has enraged fans after announcing they would begin a new initiative to implement compostable cups - doing away with the signature plastic cup for cold drinks. The infamous coffee chain is ...

An Earth Day waste audit at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) led a student "green campus" organization to remind the College community to be more careful about what goes ...

Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized composting sites in California and Oregon that turn discarded banana peels, ...