Coffee cups are now accepted for recycling in Toronto

This is great and all, but for the love of Christ, can we please ask companies like Amazon to stop padding the inside of their boxes with 100 ft of plastic bubble wrap?! Just use paper, and I can recycle that and the box in one go!

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It's part of a transition to a recycling system funded and run by brands that produce packaging — including fast-food chains and retailers — by 2026.

Langdon says it's just the first tangible step, but a sign that producers are taking responsibility "and starting to evolve the system in Ontario."

Emily Alfred, waste campaigner for the Toronto Environmental Alliance, said the group thinks it's essential for companies that make packaging to take responsibility for the garbage they produce, and getting cups into the recycling system is a good move.

Alfred worries that making disposable cups recyclable may take the pressure off companies to find better solutions.

For example, in March, the City of Toronto started requiring businesses to accept customers' clean, reusable cups.

Some cities such as Edmonton, Banff, Alta., and Terrebonne and Mascouche, Que,  have started requiring businesses to offer reusable cups to dine-in customers.

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