Biodegradable hot beverage cup

02-Jul-07

In 2005, Americans used and discarded 14.4 billion disposable paper cups for hot beverages. If put end-to-end, those cups would circle the earth 55 times. Based on anticipated growth of specialty coffees, that number will grow to 23 billion by 2010, enough to circle the globe 88 times. Ecotainer(TM) Cup - a 100% biodegradable hot beverage cup has just won the Specialty Coffee Association of America's 2007 Sustainability Award. The cup has a liner made from corn instead of petrochemicals. In a blind trial test of more than 5 million cups, not one customer noticed anything "different" about the corn-based cups from the regular variety.