It is estimated that 65% of the American population drinks coffee. Of those coffee drinkers it is further estimated that 250 coffee cups per year are thrown away per person. The grand total being 58 billion discarded coffee cups! You could fill the largest football stadium in the world (Michigan Stadium) 50 times with that amount of coffee waste. That’s a lot of paper coffee cups! It is clear that if a solution isn’t found to divert coffee cup waste, the negative impact on the…
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