Paper coffee cups accepted in the program include the disposable cups Calgarians will find at most coffee shops and chains. Soft drink cups at fast food and food court restaurants are also ...

It notes that more than 3,000 paper coffee cups are thrown out every day on campus, although there are programs in place to recycle or compost many of those cups.

Paper coffee cups are lined with plastic or wax so they can't go in the Blue Bin (recycling). Put disposable coffee cups in the garbage. Non-black plastic lids and paper sleeves can be removed and ...

Carbon Neutral Shredding owner Ian Chandler in his truck with shredded coffee cups. — Dan Pearce/Torstar Carbon Neutral has been doing this since 2012 and has “never had a rejection from the paper ...

The City of Calgary announced Tuesday disposable paper coffee cups will now be accepted in blue cart recycling bins. “Residents have been asking us about coffee cup recycling for some time ...

Since the 1980s – and aided in large part by Starbucks – paper to-go cups have become ubiquitous around the world. The problem, however, is that the standard paper coffee cup is made up of two ...

Supposedly eco-friendly paper cups may be just as toxic to the environment and human body as plastic ones, a study suggests. Scientists in Sweden found the thin-film of plastic coated onto the ...

In the latest Coffee Cup Revolution, binners across Vancouver collected 31,000 coffee cups in just four hours. The Vancouver Binners’ Project has advocated for a coffee cup recycling program.

More than two million plastic bags, 2.6 million paper coffee cups, and countless foam takeout food containers are thrown out each week in Vancouver. “It kind of takes your breath away,” Coun ...

Tim Hortons is experimenting with returnable cups. I tried it out and here's how it went The pilot project — currently limited to 18 stations in downtown Vancouver — allows you to pay a $4 ...