About 15 a month,” said Kemper, a freshman, who also uses the Vessel program. Up to 200 million single use coffee cups are thrown away every year in Ireland, according to a new recycling report.
“How many cups of coffee do we have every week, maybe three or four? The 2.5 billion synthetic cups thrown away in … 22,000 coffee cups are disposed of in Ireland every hour, that is 528,000 every day or 200 million a year.

Some outlets offer a discount for bringing your own reusable cup. That’s a lot of cups. So the next time you head over to your favorite coffee joint, think about this infographic, and consider buying a reusable coffee mug.

In the UK we use 7 million disposable coffee … Coffee shops have been slammed by consumer watchdogs after it emerged that disposable cups are causing a recycling nightmare. A news story from mid-2016 revealed that Tim Hortons, while inviting customers to place their disposable coffee cups in recycling containers, was not in fact recycling the cups in most parts of Canada, but merely sending them to landfills (the cups have a thin plastic lining that prevents them from joining the paper stream in many recycling programs). But the recent report on disposable coffee cups from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (the one that proposed the 25p “latte levy” charge on takeaway drinks) says it wants to see all single-use coffee cups being recycled by 2023. Hundreds of thousands of coffee cups are throw into the recycling bin in the USA every day. A 25p latte levy should be introduced on disposable coffee cups to cut waste, MPs have said. They're wrong - those cups aren't recyclable, and the UK throws away 2.5bn of them a year. Otherwise, it says, “the government should ban them.” Wrongly, most consumers just presume that paper or Styrofoam … Designed specifically for the Keurig brand coffee brewer, these white plastic pods with aluminum foil lids create a single cup of coffee with the press of a button. Americans dump 16 tons of sewage into their waters — every minute of every day. According to the Guardian, Martin Myerscough, the inventor of the Frugalpac cup, wants to help curb the 2.5 billion cups used in the UK each year of which only one in 400 are recycled. Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 2.5 million plastic beverage bottles every hour. If an individual purchases a disposable cup every day, this creates about 23 pounds of waste per year. According to a study by Starbucks, each paper cup manufactured is responsible for 0.24 pounds of CO2 emissions.1 Recycling Advocates estimates that 50 MILLION disposable coffee cups are used in the Metro area per year.
The coffee shop chain is trialling a 5p "latte levy" charge on paper cups in 35 branches in London - a plan proposed on a national level by MPs and rejected by the government in March. According to this new infographic from eC02Greetings, there are 50 billion coffee cups that go straight into trash every year. Americans throw away about 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year.

The dismal coffee cup recycling rate led to calls for a ban or tax on disposable coffee cups in March. However, what most people don’t recognize is that these cups are not recyclable and the USA alone throws away around 25 bn of them each year. They're wrong - those cups aren't recyclable, and the UK throws away 2.5bn of them a year. Just one small purchase can put a dent in a really tall problem. That's approximately 2,700,000 paper coffee cups thrown out every day! If the 2023 target is not met, the committee said the Government should ban disposable coffee cups outright. After the coffee is brewed, the pod is designed not to be reused, composted, or recycled - but to be thrown in the trash. Every day hundreds of thousands of Britons put their coffee cup into a recycling bin. Bringing your own cup could save you around 50c on your coffee!