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Plastic cups are a party and picnic staple. However, some plastics, based on how they are used and the temperatures of liquids they hold, can lead to health issues. These are several plastic cups with ...

Starbucks is one of the United States' biggest users of single-use plastic cups, and despite company requests for customers to place their expended cups in their recycle bins, CBS News has discovered ...

Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Many consumers trust that when they toss a plastic cup into a ...

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 ...

Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic.

Starbucks wants to eliminate single-use plastic by 2030 and is already testing ways to do it. One location has a cup-washing station that allows users to clean out reusable cups between uses.

The next time you order an iced coffee from Starbucks, it might not look that different — but there’s been a major change. The chain announced Thursday that the plastic cups for all sizes of its cold ...

When announcing the closing of his company’s seed round of funding, LumiTerra (Lumi) co-founder and CEO Kevin Diamond said the company’s vision was to “challenge the status quo in disposable beverage ...

Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic.