30 Cups every second

I saw a commercial this morning for Dunkin Donuts, touting that they pour 30 cups of coffee every second.  Being that I'm not the brightest mind in the room at any given time, I checked my trusty SpongeBob calculator.  That amounts to 2,592,000 cups of coffee/day.  How much of that goes into styrofoam?  How much of that styrofoam gets recycled? 

I make a pot of coffee every morning for me and my wife, and whoever potentially drops by.  We fill up our reusable portable coffee containers, and go on our way.  Whatever is left at the end is made into ice coffee for a later date, and the coffee grounds go into the composter.  It probably costs us a quarter per cup, as opposed to over a dollar, and there's no waste.  So simple, yet seemingly so far away. 

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Yikes. That's a lot of styrofoam.