Home-Compostable Coffee Cups : home compostable coffee cups

Starbucks EMEA teamed up with Transcend Packaging, Qwarzo and Metsä Board to introduce a home-compostable coffee cup across select European markets. Although the hot cups don’t look much different, they’ll make an impact as a compostable and recyclable alternative for customers when they don’t have a reusable cup.

Whether or not plastic-lined coffee cups are sorted correctly, many mainstream recycling and waste management facilities don’t have the technology to separate the materials—but this cup and lid can be recycled in recycling bins or composted at home. The new cup features traceable wood fibre sourced from Northern European forests and a mineral-based coating developed in Italy. Single-use plastic lids have also been replaced with fibre alternatives, and coated with the same mineral-based material.

The new home-compostable hot cup and lid will first appear in Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland and Austria.