In 2019, a research group from India filled paper cups with hot water to see if plastic particles or chemicals were released. “What came as a surprise to us was the number of microplastic ...

The phade® hot beverage cup is the world’s first-ever paper cup lined with PHA rather than a plastic film, allowing it to quickly return to earth, whereas the plastic lining in traditional ...

In 2019, a research group based out of India filled paper cups with hot water and found that there were an alarming amount of microplastic particles in a paper cup after filling the cups with hot ...

One such post features a video where a woman soaks a Starbucks paper cup in hot water overnight to reveal the cup’s plastic lining. “Clearly, this is not a paper cup, it’s a paper and ...

Most of the paper cups are lined with a plastic coating or polythene. This makes the cup waterproof and it can cause chemical leaching when hot tea is poured.

The use of disposable paper cups for drinking hot beverages has become a common practice, but experts claim that drinking hot tea or coffee from these cups could lead to the ingestion of harmful ...