A Sustainability Expert Weighs In

Question: Why are Disposable Paper Cup a sustainable choice?

Answer: What's obvious is that paper cups are convenient, clean and hygienic. What's less obvious to most of us is that paper cups are made from a renewable resource. 30 paper mills in North America recycle used cups.

Paper mills take used paper cups and re-pulp them, turning them into a variety of products. The fiber from recycled cups is used to make:

tissue

a variety of paper products

recycled paperboard

Custom Disposable Coffee Paper Cups are a sustainable choice because they can be recycled.

They are also a sustainable choice because they are made from a renewable resource, whose cultivation benefits the environment. In other words, they are made with wood fiber from sustainably managed forests, which is a 100% renewable resource.

The market for wood fiber to make products like paper cups has a beneficial environmental impact:

More than 1 billion trees are planted in the U.S. each year. And working forests are sustainably managed.

Working forests capture and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Forests and the products made from them store approximately 14% of all annual U.S. carbon dioxide emissions each year.

Leftovers from manufacturing, such as chips, barks and sticks, are used to generate bioenergy that powers mills.

An estimated two-thirds of the power used to make Biodegradable Paper Cups and other wood and paper products comes from renewable bioenergy and not from fossil fuels.

Paper products are a good sustainable choice -- they keep lands forested, store carbon, are manufactured with renewable bioenergy, and support our recycling system.