EXPLAINER Coffee cups, plastic bags, meal kit packaging: Here's what to do with hard to recycle items One in four items tossed into recycling bins aren't actually recyclable By Katherine Sacks ...

Disposable coffee cups, milk cartons, takeout boxes, and other food packaging has a plastic lining to make sure liquids and oils don’t seep through.

Reporters placed plastic cold drink cups, embedded with trackers, into 57 labeled recycling bins at Starbucks locations across the country to see where the cups went. Only 36 provided reliable data.

In addition to using less plastic for the cups themselves — Starbucks projects the new cups will save more than 13.5 million pounds of plastic going to landfills annually — it is “projected ...

Danone is recalling all YoCrunch yogurt sold nationwide due to a potential choking hazard from plastic pieces. The company announced the recall for all flavors and sizes currently in stores in a news ...