Just one in 400 coffee cups are recycled, a new poll has found as experts warned that even if you throw them in recycling bins they are not reused.

Half of people believe their disposable coffee cups are being recycled all or most of the time, when in fact very few are, the survey suggests.

It also revealed just one in 10 of those interviewed used specialist in-store recycling bins to discard their used paper coffee cups, raising questions about their use in increasing recycling of the items.