Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people think takeaway coffee cups are made of paper - but they are not. (Nitat Termmee via Getty Images) The UK consumes more ...

Testing 400 coffee cups To see how this works in the real world, we collected 400 coffee cups of two major types around Brisbane: plastic cups made of polyethylene and plastic-lined paper cups which ...

Your daily coffee habit might be exposing you to microplastics. Nutritionist Khushi Chhabra reveals that the plastic lining in paper cups releases these tiny particles when heated. Consuming these can ...