The UK Government has cancelled plans to mandate businesses to take back single-use cups and recycle them as part of pEPR.

The research also emphasizes that alternatives to single-use paper cups need to be carefully evaluated. While shifting away from plastic was necessary, paper cups are not necessarily the safest or ...

This includes single-use cups marketed as "biodegradable" or "compostable". Most single-use cups are paper, but are lined with plastic to make them waterproof. This makes them difficult to recycle ...

Getty Single-use cups have a plastic lining, making them difficult to recycle The problem with many disposable cups is that, although they are made of paper, they have a waterproof plastic lining.