Will one of these 12 visions replace today's throwaway coffee cup?
RP Siegel runs the rule over the winners of a new US competition seeking to tackle the coffee cup waste mountain
Some 600 billion new disposable cups each year swell landfills, litter landscapes or drift in seas around the world. To help address a vexing design dilemma and reduce that waste stream, the Next-Gen Cup...
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