{"id":9500,"date":"2018-10-17T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:44:59","slug":"green-tips-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/green-tips-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Tips: Bring Your Own Coffee Cup to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Learn to Live More Sustainably – One Step at-a-time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Think your daily coffee habit at work has no impact?\u00a0 Think again. It may not seem like a big deal, but single-use coffee cups<\/strong><\/em> have a significant, negative<\/strong> <\/em>impact on the \"\"<\/a>environment<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Americans drink a lot of coffee, and throw away an estimated 60 billion single-use coffee cups every year. *<\/p>\n

* Source:\u00a0 CNN 1\/5\/18;\u00a0 “Would you Pay a Tax on Coffee Cups”<\/a>
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And single-use coffee cups are not recyclable<\/strong><\/em> – they have a plastic liner between the paper layers to prevent leakage, or they are made of non-recyclable styrofoam.\u00a0\u00a0 So what can you<\/em> <\/strong>do?<\/p>\n