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To: combjelly who wrote (89342)	8/16/2018 2:28:48 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361084

Well, McDs changed to paper in UK this year. I don't really know how many others have done the same. The reality is the plastic lids on soft drinks don't have a good paper replacement; we used plastic in our family business since I was a child. But there are suitable paper replacements for coffee cups/lids. I think if you build a machine to insert paper lids into paper cups 1/4" from the top, a simple groove in the cup would do. I've never seen that, but it wouldn't be hard to manufacture. A hole for a paper straw and you're good. But you can't really have people handling the rim of the cup without gloves today and that creates another problem, so a simple machine to insert a lid is necessary.