The Waste Mountain of Coffee Cups

A man with a foghorn and a cup standing in front of a double decker bus with coffee cups on its side that spell out 'Wake up and smell the waste.'

Every day hundreds of thousands of Britons put their coffee cup into a recycling bin. They’re wrong – those cups aren’t recyclable, and the UK throws away 2.5bn of them a year. It must stop, writes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. One chilly morning last March – exactly the sort of morning when a warming cafe latte could […]