Starbucks announced Wednesday it will pilot new greener to-go cups this year in Vancouver that will be both recyclable and compostable. Vancouver will join New York, San Francisco, Seattle and London to trial different cup options that will be chosen from the NextGen Cup Challenge winners that were announced earlier this month. I'm excited and proud that our customers in Vancouver will be among the first to sip coffee from a greener to-go cup." One of the categories of the competition was to create innovative cup liners so that coffee to-go cups can in fact be compostable and recyclable. Current coffee to-go cups are made with paper but are lined with polyethylene plastic or wax making them difficult to recycle in most jurisdictions.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2019 14:11 UTC