Tim Hortons will reduce the price of your coffee by 10 cents if you bring in your own mug. I dont know that many people know or take advantage of that. I was wondering about our use of paper cups (the trees required, the transportation footprint, the waste produced), and Wikipedia had a nice little article: Emissions. A study of one paper coffee cup with sleeve (16 ounce) shows that the CO2 emissions is about .11 kilograms (.25 pounds) per cup with sleeve - including paper from trees, materials, production and shipping.[20] Habitat loss trees used. The loss of natural habitat potential from the paper coffee cup (16 ounce) with a sleeve is estimated to be .09 square meters (.93 square feet).[21] Over 6.5 million trees were cut down to make 16 billion paper cups used by US consumers only for coffee in 2006, using 4 billion US gallons (15,000,000 m3) of water and resulting in 253 million pounds of waste. Overall, North Americans use 58% of all paper cups, amounting to a staggering 130 billion cups.[13][22]
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 04:09:25 +0000
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