06 Mar 2019 --- We may be one step closer to “solving” the single-use coffee cup problem as The NextGen Consortium, convened by Closed Loop Partners, has announced the winners of the NextGen Cup Challenge. The competition was a global innovation challenge to redesign the fiber to-go cup and create a widely recyclable and/or compostable cup. These 12 winning solutions – broadly categorized into innovative cup liners, new materials and reusable cup service models – have the potential to turn the 250 billion fiber to-go cups used annually from waste into a valuable material in the recycling system.