date:Aug 20, 2014
onal plastic or polystyrene foam cups create a much higher carbon footprint than a cup made of paperboard with a thin PE coating.
A cup made of PE-coated Invercote has a carbon footprint that is scarcely a quarter the size of the one left by the same cup made of plastic just comparing the weight of the materials used, Anna Adler emphasised. By that measure alone, the paperboard cup is the clear winner. If you add the existence of efficient recycling systems and the fact that the stored bioener