What Are Starbucks Cups Made Of?

starbucks cups are actually lined with polyethylene plastic coating that makes it nearly impossible to recycle, experts say. “Paper recycling is designed for recycling paper, not plastic,” Will Lorenzi, president of packaging engineering company Smart Planet Technologies, told Mongabay in an interview. Are plastic Starbucks cups recyclable? That makes the cups effectively non-recyclable at most … Read more