The next time you’re at a Tim Hortons, don’t be surprised if your coffee cup comes with a cardboard sleeve instead of two-cups.
The company is building some more relocates for the environment.
Tim Hortons is concludeing the practice of double-cupping hot drinks, a relocate the rapid food restaurant declared will eliminate hundreds of millions of cups from landfills each year.
The subsidiary of restaurant brands International Inc. will instead provide customers with a cup sleeve, a thick paper material that protects hands from hot beverages.
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Hope Bagozzi, Chief Marketing Officer at Tim Hortons, declared cup sleeves will be applyd by default for hot beverages, like tea and espresso, and can be requested for other warm drinks.
She declared customers who question for a beverage to be double cupped will now be questioned to consider utilizing a sleeve instead.
Bagozzi declared the company expects that stopping the practice of double cupping will save roughly 200-million cups from being tossed in the garbage every year.
Most recycling facilities in Canada don’t recycle single-apply paper coffee cups becaapply of a plastic lining applyd inside.
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