New Eco-Friendly Cups -- If you want a "to-go" cup and are concerned about bettering our environment, then this is the cup for you.  This is for 50-10oz ecotainer cups and matching lids that are fully recyclable.

Facts

• Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biopolymer derived from lactic acid that is produced by the fermentation of corn sugars. Less energy is needed to manufacture the PLA used in the new cup coating than the petroleum based lining it replaces.
• Theoretically, a petroleum-based cup liner will stay intact for eternity after being discarded. The PLA liner will break down under the proper conditions.
• In 2005, Americans used and discarded 14.4 billion disposable paper cups for hot beverages. If put end-to-end, those cups would circle the earth 55 times. Based on anticipated growth of specialty coffees, that number will grow to 23 billion by 2010—enough to circle the globe 88 times.
• Based on hot cup usage in 2005, the petrochemicals used in the manufacture of those cups could have heated 8,300 homes for one year.
• By choosing to utilize a corn-based cup liner, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters alone will conserve the consumption of nearly a quarter of a million pounds of non-renewable petrochemical materials every year.
• Even the energy used by International Paper to produce the paperboard for the ecotainer™ cup is environmentally friendly—70 percent of the energy is from fully renewable resources.