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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