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Single-use coffee cup for airline use is 100% recyclable

A distributor of supplies to the airline cabin industry adopts coating technology that allows its disposable paper cup to be universally recyclable.

Linstol’s Super Cup uses 100%-recyclable EarthCoating on its interior
Linstolā€™s Super Cup uses 100%-recyclable EarthCoating on its interior

Linstol, a distributor to the airline cabin product industry, has completed a license agreement with Smart Planet Technologies to use the supplierā€™s EarthCoating for its new Super Cup paper cup.

Traditionally, disposable paper coffee cups are difficult to recycle because of the plastic coating used on the inside of the cup. Instead, Smart Planet reports, it is estimated that 15 billion coffee cups wind up in U.S. landfills annually.

Linstolā€™s Super Cup uses EarthCoating on its interior. Fully-compatible with traditional recycling systems, EarthCoating allows the Super Cup to be recycled universally. The cup also uses 43% less plastic content than a traditional paper cup and is designed with a 40%-smaller storage footprint, allowing more cups per sleeve.

Says Linstol CEO Mark Russell, ā€œHelping reduce our airline alliance partnersā€™ environmental footprint is an initiative that is at the core of who Linstol is.ā€

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