Less than 1 per cent of disposable cups are recycled
By Irene Gomez
It is nine o’clock in the morning and there is a long queue in the coffee shop as people wait patiently for their takeaway dose of caffeine.
In the UK, 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups are thrown away every year. Committee MP says that less than 1% of them are recycled, even if they are thrown in the recycling bins.
What makes difficult to recycle them is their composition, made of a mix of paper and plastic. Paper can be easily recycled, but it is plastic what makes the cup waterproof.