Coffee Cups

Trash Trail • Season 1 • Episode 2

About this episode

We drink 630 million cups of coffee a year, and throw out at least 50 kilograms of paper cups every day. In fact each person drinking one cup of coffee out of a paper cup every day for a year, creates 10 kilograms of waste. Some of us try to recycle the paper cups, but what really happens to these cups when they’re collected?