Drawing and posting his 100th cartoon on Dec. 31, Hara could have taken a break, but on New Year's Day, he began the first of what he hopes to be another 100 coffee-cup cartoons in 2015.

Many coffee shops will collect them for recycling—but having to drop paper cups off takes the convenience out of a single-use product. Today, only four out of every 100 paper cups are recycled ...

On a bigger scale, the Blue Bottle coffeehouse chain, which goes through about 15,000 to-go cups a month at its 70 U.S. locations, says it wants to "show our guests and the world that we can ...

This alarming animation shows the rate at which paper coffee cups are bought in the UK – with over 100 purchased every single second. The tool shows a pile of standard-sized, 11cm tall paper ...