500 billion disposable cups are consumed every year. Go Green – The greenest choice is to bring along your own reusable cup. Usage of disposable cups and plates in the U.S. 2011-2023 Size of the global disposable tableware market 2016-2020 Share of Americans who plan to buy a second home 2018, by age They're wrong - those cups aren't recyclable, and the UK throws away 2.5bn of them a year. Some outlets offer a discount for bringing your own reusable cup. APCO Chief Executive Officer, Trish Hyde, said with an estimated 1.2 billion coffee cups used in Australia each year, it was necessary to tackle this complex and often confusing issue of which bin to put these cups in, “The community is currently receiving many mixed messages about whether their coffee cup can be recycled or not. Americans alone throw away 25 billion styrofoam coffee cups every year. Coffee cups are generally not recyclable and most end up in landfill or on the street. We also did some research and found that 430 billion single-use disposable cups are thrown in the trash each year around the world, this is about 140,000 each second. Our findings indicate that on average, 155 cups get thrown in the trash per person, per year. Every day hundreds of thousands of Britons put their coffee cup into a recycling bin. That's approximately 2,700,000 paper coffee cups thrown out every day! We surveyed 167 people from different backgrounds to know how many single-use cups they throw away. Bringing your own cup could save you around 50c on your coffee! It is not known exactly how many cups Kiwis throw away each year. In 2011 it was estimated that 2.5 billion coffee cups were thrown away each year and that figure is likely to be higher now. Most of the Styrofoam disposed of today will still be present in landfills 500 years from now. Styrofoam cannot be completely recycled. It is estimated Australians use 1 billion disposable coffee cups each year.