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7/18/2014

Topic Reading-Vol.828-7/18/2014

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
This paper cup can be recycled -- unlike the 50 billion that end up in landfills
That’s an estimated number of disposed coffee cups in the U.S. alone a year. That sounds like a lot of un-recycled coffee cups, don’t they? In other words, it’s a good target to work on to make some effort for cleaner and greener world. But why paper cups aren’t recycled? That’s because those conventionally used cardboard cups are attached a layer of plastic to keep the coffee warm and the cup dry, which can’t be put into the paper recycling process.
So a British inventor came with a practical idea to make the cups recyclable that could save as many as 350 billion cups. He made the layer of plastic not attached to the cup but make it removable, so that the plastic part can be easily separated when they are recycled.
Sounds simple, doesn't it?
Enjoy reading and learning about a new way to save billions of coffee cups.

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