内容摘要：Rafael Murillo, a young diver who performs shows in the sea for tips, chats with two women resting along the water to cool off from the heat in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Rafael Murillo, a young diver who performs shows in the sea for tips, chats with two women resting along the water to cool off from the heat in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Kristina Smithe, founder of Hiccup, a reusable silicone cup, stands for a portrait with her rescue dog, Tina, during the PNC Women Run the Cities race on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)Kristina Smithe, founder of Hiccup, a reusable silicone cup, stands for a portrait with her rescue dog, Tina, during the PNC Women Run the Cities race on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Now her business, Hiccup Earth, has 70,000 cups that Smithe rents out to interested races to replace the typical white paper cups that can pile up like snowdrifts at busy water stops.Billions of disposable cups are used around the world each year. These cups are often made of, but even if they are made of paper, they typically have a plastic lining that makes it

. And making these cups, and disposing or burning them,“That’s just a small subset of the amount of plastic waste that we produce, but it’s a pretty visible one,” said Sarah Gleeson, solutions research manager and plastics waste expert at climate nonprofit Project Drawdown. “It’s something that generates a lot of waste, and waste — depending on what exactly it’s made of — can really last in landfills for hundreds of years.”

Eddie Ashton, 10, of St. Paul, Minn., hands out a reusable silicone cup by Hiccup along the PNC Women Run the Cities route on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Eddie Ashton, 10, of St. Paul, Minn., hands out a reusable silicone cup by Hiccup along the PNC Women Run the Cities route on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)He was later identified by police as John Sheldon of Brooklyn. He had been mistakenly identified by police earlier in the day as Sheldon John.

Authorities said they were searching for the other rider, who they described as in his 20s or 30s and who was dressed in black and wearing black headphones.Police said the two men got into an argument on a train after the other man stepped on Sheldon’s shoes. Sheldon was stabbed on the train and in the subway station after the two got off, police said.

Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there had been no homicides in the transit system during the first three months of the year for the first time in seven years. She added that subway crime from January to March had decreased to the second-lowest level in the first quarter in 27 years.Violent crime is rare overall in the system, which carries millions of riders every day. However, recent high-profile attacks, such as