In a five-hour span, 45,000 cups were collected. Paul Henderson, Metro Vancouver's manager for solid waste, says that paper cup usage around Vancouver needs to be reduced.

The addition is expected to boost acceptance in recycling streams and at mills. It comes as Graphic Packaging International ...

According to the Recycling Council of B.C. the manufacture of paper cups in the U.S. each year results in 6.5 million trees being cut down, four billion gallons of water and five trillion BTUs ...

She says, "The paper cup then goes into the garbage with no environmental savings." Several other Tim Hortons employees have shared the same concerns. And on Nov. 5 CBC witnessed this at a Tim ...

The paper coffee cup is fully recyclable, and any problem with “mixed-media” refuse should be dealt with by the recyclers, not used as an excuse not to recycle the materials at all.

Make (paper cup) polluters pay like we have in the past Everyone in B.C. is familiar with the province-wide Return-It recycling depot system. This is an EPR descended from the first one created by ...

Sonoco Products Company SON aims to accelerate recycling opportunities for paper cups in bales of residential mixed paper, which will be used as raw material for the company’s Hartsville, S.C ...