Developed by Los Angeles-based Lumiterra, the aluminum cup contains recycled content and continually can be recycled in standard systems.

For now, whether you get a plastic or compostable cup depends on where you live—but if local laws continue to push for more sustainable packaging, it’s possible more Starbucks locations could ...

Bioengineered packaging is produced using biological methods to replace traditional packaging with greener, renewable options ...

Some advocacy groups, however, have suggested that the transition away from polypropylene plastic cups is more connected ... set last year to make all of its packaging reusable, recyclable ...

Their brief? To create new forms of food packaging to replace the unsustainable designs upon which modern life seems to depend: single-use plastic beverage cups, lids, straws, and bottles.