We love to drink coffee out-of-home (OOH). But, according to a recent study, our love of coffee-to-go generates 118 billion OOH cups of coffee annually.

Usually, a plastic lid sits atop these cups of coffee, and those lids are generally unrecycled. This truth has led to legislative action to ban or dissuade disposable cups and lids like in Ireland. Some cafes are proactive, funding alternatives to single-use coffee cups, like Starbucks and McDonald’s, or doing away with the option, like Blue Bottle.