If a customer chooses to use a paper cup, then, depending on where they live, it can be put in a recycling bin, a green bin to be composted, or a waste receptacle.
Our coffee cup is made of paper and has a thin plastic liner on the inside to keep the hot liquids from leaking out. The paper component of the cup can be recycled or composted. The thin plastic liner is screened out along with other residual material that is a normal part of any recycling or composting operation.
There are a number of municipal waste diversion programs across Canada where our coffee cups are accepted in either the recycling or composting programs (examples include Kelowna, Regina, Brandon, Hamilton, Yarmouth, Moncton and all of Prince Edward Island.)
In Atlantic Canada we have about 100 locations that capture cups for recycling or composting. In Nova Scotia we are working with our partner Scotia Recycling and our cups are recycled at a growing number of locations.
This same program is expanding across the region and across Canada where we now have some 400 locations where our cup is recycled or composted.
We do not support any kind of cup tax or surcharge. Customers have told us that they want great coffee at a competitive price. That's why we offer our customers a choice to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Greta Najcler
Manager of Environmental Affairs
Tim Hortons Inc
John Montgomery
Sr. regional vicepresident
The TDL Group Corp
Debert
I live in downtown Toronto, there are no bus stops littered with Tim Horton coffee cups. This is a pretty clean city.