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“City Experiments with Reusable Cups at Starbucks, Taco Bell and 30 Other Restaurants–with Return Bins all over town” (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Blair to c/zerowaste

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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.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Those bins are just gonna be filled with trash and there's still gonna be these cups and other litter in the gutter.

[–] Quill7513 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Still. I think it's a step in the right direction. Maybe it would really incentivize people if there was a small deposit

[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Is it? It creates more plastic cups + new bins to replace, what I’d assume is, paper cups in most cases.

[–] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

80/20 rule. If it is successful 80% of the time, it is actually a success. The 20 is how to hone the program, not how to point out how it will only fail.

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I had to stop and check if this was an Onion article lmao.

Like, has any one of the dozen people that approved this actually met an American?