Compared to a good old fashioned coffee cup, drinking from a paper cup with a plastic lid can leave a lot to be desired, with that small stream of coffee flowing through that tiny hole. And then you ...

For some McDonald's fans in the U.K., coffee lids are saving them from their paper-straw nightmare. Fed up with the fast-food chain’s new straws, customers at some U.K. locations have begun asking for ...

The makers of a new kind of plastic lid are hoping to ride coffee's growing "Third Wave" movement by appealing to consumers who would appreciate a better smell—and hence better taste—from their daily ...

A look at the origins of a ubiquitous but humble object—and why design experts and collectors are obsessed with it Take-out beverage lids collected in the '90s and early '00s, photographed by ...

The convenience plastic offers through single-use straws, water bottles and disposable coffee cups comes at no small cost to the environment, but we are growing more aware of the damage they cause.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starbucks is bidding farewell to straws ... for the most part. The Seattle-based coffee chain announced back in July 2018 that it ...

Until today I assumed, wrongly, that plastic coffee lids were not a source of inspiration for anyone. I neglected plastic coffee lid designers like Josh Harris. His Coffee Lid Caddy is actually pretty ...

McDonald's customers think they have an ingenious way to avoid the new "mushy" paper straws, but ironically, it involves more plastic MCDONALD’S customers think they have come up with an ingenious way ...

Lianne Rood is outraged. The Conservative MP for Lambton-Kent-Middlesex posted a video last week on social media, decrying the material used to make her Tim Hortons coffee-cup lid. “I’m done with Tim ...

Architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht both began collecting plastic coffee cup lids in the 1980s, but only became aware of each other’s interest in the subject when they met as grad students at ...

McDonald’s customers are using plastic coffee lids to avoid the fast food chain’s new paper straws. Earlier this month, customers took to Twitter complaining that the company’s paper straws are ...