Around 50 billion disposable drink cups are used every year in the US, but in the city of Petaluma, we will see if Americans have the discipline to reduce this footprint.
The city numbers around 60,000 people, and will participate in the Reuseable Cup Project. The aim is to furnish 30 local restaurants, from Starbucks to Taco Bell, with identical, durable, plastic drink cups, which customers and diners can use and then either leave on the table, or deposit in a network of dropoff bins around the city.
closes the cupboard where he keeps all his stolen A&W mugs
Imagine if those smartasses hear about glass cups
Too breakable. Collection like this, they want uh pourable in a different sense.
Those bins are just gonna be filled with trash and there’s still gonna be these cups and other litter in the gutter.
Still. I think it’s a step in the right direction. Maybe it would really incentivize people if there was a small deposit
Why not just stop including drinks with meals. It’s half the reason we’re all so goddamn fat.
Sugar is addictive and plenty of people lack self control. If you include a giant source of sugar with a meal for a few cents people are going to buy it. If you don’t include it you can increase public health and reduce pollution. Unfortunately people don’t like to be told what is good for them.
Should make it so you can just throw it in any no-sort recycling bin… Then collect them from the recycling center. No need for a whole new bin system.
