Toronto is willing to take on Tim Hortons, refusing to back down from its threat to outlaw disposable paper cups with plastic lids despite the coffee chain’s opposition.
On Tuesday, the city gave Tim Hortons and other hot-drink vendors until the end of 2009 to find a paper lid for their cups or switch to Styrofoam, which can soon be thrown in the blue box.
But a Tim Hortons vice-president said the Canadian coffee company would “absolutely not” consider changing its cup because it already can be, and is, fully recycled
By Toronto’s own admission, it’s not that the city can’t recycle paper cups with plastic lids, it’s that it simply doesn’t want to.
A city report on the proposed packaging policy said Toronto could buy an optical sorting machine to separate the two materials, but the equipment would cost $3-million and the processing could run about $1-million a year.
Toronto is skeptical that people would follow the instructions to separate the two pieces on their own
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