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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)

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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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[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I love recycling, but I am also skeptical. Not even of the infrastructure itself, idk I guess the idea could work, but the people are so fucking stupid. And lazy. This will lead to failure.

I see people throwing away full, half-full cups. Even just cups of ice, that ice melts, now there's water. All this sticky-sweet refuse will attract insects. What's going to become of this gross mess? Who's going to clean it up for reuse? Will it be cleaned well enough?