Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Fair Trade Coffee http://inhabitat.com Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc GREENING YOUR COFFEE HABIT: Ecotainer Hot Beverage Cup http://inhabitat.com/greening-your-coffee-habit-ecotainer-hot-beverage-cup/ http://inhabitat.com/greening-your-coffee-habit-ecotainer-hot-beverage-cup/#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:37:56 +0000 Gretchen http://inhabitat.com/blog/2006/07/22/greening-your-coffee-habit-ecotainer-hot-beverage-cup/
America runs on coffee, and Americans are a people on the run. Every year, we drink more than 100 billion cups of coffee and of those, at least 14.4 billion are served in disposable paper to-go cups. That's enough cups to wrap the earth 55 times! Traditionally,]]> Greening your coffee

America runs on coffee, and Americans are a people on the run. Every year, we drink more than 100 billion cups of coffee and of those, at least 14.4 billion are served in disposable paper to-go cups. That’s enough cups to wrap the earth 55 times!

Traditionally, those paper cups have been made with a non-renewable, non-biodegradable petrochemical plastic coating. But all that could end with the recent introduction of the new Ecotainer cup from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

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