Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people think takeaway coffee cups are made of paper - but they are not. (Nitat Termmee via Getty Images) The UK consumes more ...

A look at the origins of a ubiquitous but humble object—and why design experts and collectors are obsessed with it Take-out beverage lids collected in the '90s and early '00s, photographed by ...

How much thought have you given to your plastic coffee cup lid? Not much, we’re guessing, unless you tipped it the wrong way and spilled impossibly hot liquid down your front. And definitely not as ...