Statistics
The U.S uses/destroys without recycling 3 billion pizza boxes each year
If you buy one disposable paper cup every day you are creating 23 lbs of waste each year
53,000 homes could be powered annually by the energy needed to make and dispose of paper cups
Coffee cups are estimated to be the second largest contributor to litter waste after plastic bottles
Half a trillion disposable cups a year end up in landfills
More than half the paper used globally is for packaging
A large percentage of paper production uses no recycled content at all
K-cups in landfills could wrap around the planet 10 times
Disposable cups thrown into landfills yearly could circle the earth 1,744 times
Tens of billions of non-recyclable, non-reuseable plastic coffee pods end up in landfills each year
1 trillion cups, boxes and containers that are non-recyclable end up as waste each year
The U.S uses/destroys without recycling 3 billion pizza boxes each year
If you buy one disposable paper cup every day you are creating 23 lbs of waste each year
53,000 homes could be powered annually by the energy needed to make and dispose of paper cups
Coffee cups are estimated to be the second largest contributor to litter waste after plastic bottles
Half a trillion disposable cups a year end up in landfills
More than half the paper used globally is for packaging
A large percentage of paper production uses no recycled content at all
K-cups in landfills could wrap around the planet 10 times
Disposable cups thrown into landfills yearly could circle the earth 1,744 times
Tens of billions of non-recyclable, non-reuseable plastic coffee pods end up in landfills each year
1 trillion cups, boxes and containers that are non-recyclable end up as waste each year