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Britons throw away 2.5 billion coffee cups a year, according to ButterflyCup. This amounts to some 5000 every minute and only one in every 400 is recycled. Most cups are not recycled because their ...

The original, clever, witty, or otherwise handsome designs of the cups demonstrate the possibilities of the quotidian paper coffee cup as a blank canvas. “I wanted to focus on unique cups ...

Boey, 34, has sold his fragile, disposable art for six years. Some, like this samurai design, are priced as high as $1,250.They're incredibly complicated—each picture forms a perfect, endless ...