"We left paper cups and plastic cups in wet sediment and ... Nowadays, the plastic film is often made of polylactide, PLA, a type of bioplastic. Bioplastics are produced from renewable resources ...

Paper cups are disposed in trash cans in downtown Berkeley, California on April 18, 2018. Photo: Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle (AP) In recent years, drink chains have switched their single ...

The paper and plastic cups were placed in temperate ... of contamination.The exposure to the tainted water from both cup types appeared to hinder their development. “All of the mugs negatively ...

THE RESEARCHERS generated leachates from different types of beverage containers: plastic cups (polypropylene), lids (polystyrene), and paper cups (lined with polylactic acid). These leaching ...