Next time you go to your local Starbucks and get a cup of coffee to go, think twice about where that cup ends up later….. in the Trash!  Then ask yourself, where does that trash go?

Photo illustration by Tony Cenicola/ The New York Times

CLICK HERE To Read How Starbucks goal of making 100 percent of its cups reusable or recyclable by 2015. That’s one billion paper cups a year. (Another billion are plastic.)