How would you cope with a coffee-cup ban in your community?

[CBC News]

The City of Toronto is considering everything from a tax to an outright ban on objects like paper coffee cups, fast-food containers and plastic bags that clog the recycling system.
By 2010, Toronto wants to send only 30 per cent of its garbage to landfill sites.
But to achieve that goal, the city says, it needs to limit the garbage that takes up a lot of space — and that means reducing Styrofoam cartons, plastic bags and the ubiquitous paper coffee cup.
Among the proposals is adding a levy to coffee cups, or banning them altogether.
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How would you cope with a coffee-cup ban in your community?


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[lone wolf]

Order it in china. I drink in anyhow.... Otherwise, I have a travel mug.

 

[TenPenny]

How much energy and water is wasted by washing a cup five times a day, as opposed to using paper cups? Anybody have the numbers?

 

[Unforgiven]

How would people pick up their dog poo? This should be thought out first.

 

[EagleSmack]

How much energy and water is wasted by washing a cup five times a day, as opposed to using paper cups? Anybody have the numbers?

Good one. In my parents home town the mayor was on the radio stating how good the recycling program is going and how he still wanted people to wash out their plastic containers before putting them in the recycling bin for pick up. My mom calls in...

"Mr. Mayor...do we still have a water ban in effect?"
"Oh yes... we still need to conserve water and not use it needlessly."
"Good. Do you have any idea how much water is needed to clean out an empty jar of peanut butter?"

The political tap dance/avoidance began!

 

[DurkaDurka]

My office probably goes through a thousand coffee cups per week, I try to use my Mug but I have a tendency to forget it.

 

[Risus]

How would people pick up their dog poo? This should be thought out first.

what does dog poo have to do with it????

 

[Tonington]

Plastic bags were included in the CBC snipet.

 

[Unforgiven]

what does dog poo have to do with it????

Not a dog owner are ya Risus? People recycle grocery bags to pick up their dog excrement while out for the morning or evening constitutional. Well those who bother atleast.

 

[AmberEyes]

I could easily cope with it. I don't use plastic bags, I use fabric ones (easier to carry). I use a travel mug for my single cup of coffee a day. I don't eat out, so no styrofoam containers.

 

[snobeach]

I'd give it a try, probably wouldn't hurt at all.

I use fabric ones (easier to carry). quote]

Good point AmberEyes, I have a bunch of these and don't use them often enough.



As for the dog poo, that would require some creativity.

 

[Risus]

Plastic bags were included in the CBC snipet.

Yeah I see that now.... My mistake.

 

[karrie]

I buy biodegradable bags for picking up after the dog. A small roll that clips to the leash carries 20 or so bags. Much better than taking plastic bags along, tidier, more enviro friendly.

 

[TenPenny]

I could easily cope with it. I don't use plastic bags, I use fabric ones (easier to carry). I use a travel mug for my single cup of coffee a day. I don't eat out, so no styrofoam containers.

Do you buy meat? I'm curious about how it is packaged, and how you bring it home.

 

[Scott Free]

How would you cope with a coffee-cup ban in your community?

I would ignore it.

 

[darkbeaver]

Not a dog owner are ya Risus? People recycle grocery bags to pick up their dog excrement while out for the morning or evening constitutional. Well those who bother atleast.

The ****less dog is going to make someone rich.

 

[darkbeaver]

I would ignore it.

We could buy our own paper mugs and discard them where ever we damn well please, this is still a free country, goddamn communists.

 

[Kreskin]

What difference would a levy make? I'm with you Beav. I'd buy cartons of plastic cups and triple-sleeve them for each coffee.

 

[Scott Free]

We could buy our own paper mugs and discard them where ever we damn well please, this is still a free country, goddamn communists.

It's not a free country but people are always free if they are willing to do whatever it will take to be free.

 

[darkbeaver]

I'm angry! I'm not going to take it any more.