The Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) will host an hour-long webinar on March 3, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will focus on the increasing acceptance of paper cups as seen from the perspectives of industry representatives along the value chain.

is pleased to announce the recent publication of a new white paper authored by Moore & Associates entitled The State of Paper Cup Recycling. This comprehensive paper delves into the evolving landscape of paper cup recovery efforts including recycling challenges, technical aspects of material sorting and processing, and end markets utilizing recovered cups.

The white paper also provides a deeper look at the sorting flow of paper cups to specific bales in an MRF, describes the processing aspects of polycoated paper cups, addresses concerns surrounding paper cup recyclability, and contains helpful references, including MRF case studies and lists of end markets and brokers who trade in recovered fiber bales containing paper cups.

The white paper, The State of Paper Cup Recycling, is available for free download on FPI’s website: The State of Paper Cup Recycling.