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 ...

The maker of single-serve K-Cup coffee pods and the coffee makers that use them, Keurig Dr Pepper, has settled a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint over the company's statements about ...

Keurig has agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with making misleading statements about just how recyclable its popular K-Cup single ...

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 ...

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

Sustana partners with Alpine Waste & Recycling to recover items from trash Alpine Waste & Recycling, the undisputed leader in Colorado recycling innovations, in collaboration with Sustana, a ...

Coffee shops are everywhere and so are those take-out cups. They even make reusable cups that look like the throw-away kind. If yours is reusable, wash it and reuse it. But if it is cardboard, plastic ...

Netherlands-based Renewi plc says it has found a recycling home for around 11 million disposable coffee cups in the Netherlands so far in 2018 through a collaboration with Beautiful Cups, a maker of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A CBS News investigation recently uncovered that while Starbucks advertises its recycling practices to customers, many of its plastic cups end up in landfills or incinerators after ...

Coffee shops are everywhere and so are those take-out cups. They even make reusable cups that look like the throw-away kind. If yours is reusable, wash it and reuse it. But if it is cardboard, plastic ...