Dear Tim Horton;
Why is your garbage everywhere I look?
Did you really hate nature?
Perhaps that’s your legacy
—victorthecreator
This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2009.
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It’s roll-up-the-rim time so them there cups will be multiplying like cockroaches.
FUCK. I forgot to roll up my rim tonight before I threw the cup out.
Probably won a car or something. FFS
it’s not the store’s fault that the lazy assholes that drink their coffee throw their cups out the window instead of in the trash can.
oh yes its the stores fault for not following every one of their customers around making sure they throw their trash away…
shut up!
FYI, the cups are biodegradable…they can go in the compost (not the lids though)
Way to go PK! LOL. Where did you chuck it. I’ll go find it and share any winnings!
Actually, Redfox, the cups are in fact not biodegradable, and cannot go in the compost, at least according to the HRM waste management website: http://www.halifax.ca/wrms/greencart.html#…
As I understand it, they have some sort of non-biodegradable coating on the inside that makes them capable of withstanding high temperatures.
Yep the garbage on the roads are the fault of businesses who sell their wares, not on the a-holes who throw them wherever they like. Yep so much hassle to put a Sobey’s bag (oops that’s right they’re evil) in your vehicle to put the garbage. You buy it, you get rid of it responsibly.
Um, OK Stercus, but I’ve worked for several Tim Hortons now..and the they have all told me to throw cups in the compost. I don’t think they have that coating anymore. I know they did change the cups within the past few years. Call a store, I asked my manager today after posting yesterday, and yes in fact, they are biodegradable.
Redfox, your manager’s information is incomplete. Tims cups are compostable and/or recyclable “where facilities exist”. And those facilities don’t exist anywhere east of Ontario. Tims cups are NOT compostable or recyclable in HRM.
Anyway, the issue is not whether or not they are biodegradable, but that they are all over the ground. Or are you suggesting that it’s ok to throw something on the ground as long as it’s “biodegradable”?
WG– the facilities that exist in Toronto, exist here. they use the same plans, all developed by the same company and managed by a company called WM, which used to be called BFI, which managed our site for the first two years it was in use. The cups are not bio-degradable, despite your manager’s insistence Redfox. They are still lined with that bloody plastic film, which is why they can hold hot coffee for hours on end, without leaking, but sadly it excludes them from being used in compost, as with all paper coffee cups lined with this film. They’re still much better than Styrofoam because it degrades quicker overall.
I just re-read this article in a Nat.Geographic the other day.
“A garbage truck dumps its load at a U.S. landfill. More than 70 percent of the 180 million tons of refuse Americans throw away each year ends up in landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Compacted repeatedly by bulldozers, the inner recesses of landfills receive no light, air, or moisture, making biodegradation impossible. Scientists have even found hotdogs buried in 1974 still intact 15 years later.”
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/…
Sigh, no I’m not saying that you should leave the cups on the ground, I’m just passing along what I’ve been told..for the past 5 years, and the memo that has been passed around my stores (a while back now) saying that they have changed the cups. Maybe someone should find the manufacturer telling the owners, who are telling the managers, who are telling the staff, who are telling the customers that the cups can go in the compost. No, I’m not an expert, or saying I’m 100 percent correct, just saying.
Oh, and the cup gets soggy and starts to leak after about 2 hours. (typically)
why the fuck are you blaming tim hortons for other people littering? grow the fuck up you retard.
If corporations are not responsible for the trash they produce then who is? The customer, you say? There are litter laws that could be enforced to deal with the cups (make criminals of coffee drinkers, good idea in the HRM, yup) but shouldn’t the corporation that produces the litter in the first place take some proactive anti-litter approach? (Charge a nickle deposit on the cups… they’ll ALL come back eventually)
Kay: there’s obviously a reason why they aren’t enforced. Oh, and nice copy and paste job. How original.
Fever, bless us with your wisdom and tell us why litter laws aren’t enforced (reassure me you’ve caught on to my sarcasm).
Because we don’t want to make criminals of coffee drinkers. When was the last time you saw somebody get a ticket for littering? Cops have other things to with their time, than babysit a populace. Although we could argue to the end of days otherwise, because of “stupidity” laws (that being parking tickets and jaywalking).
“make criminals of coffee drinkers, good idea in the HRM, yup”
The YUP in that sentence made a bit sarcastic, don’t you think? Of course making coffee drinkers criminals is crazy but then again, we did it to the squeegee kids, didn’t “we”?
My apologies, sarcasm doesn’t translate well into text, sadly.
Why am I blaming Tim Horton’s? Because they do fuck-all to try to stem the stream of waste they inflict on the environment,Why doesn’t every drive-thru have a garbage chute strategically located one car-length back from the pick-up window,that way perhaps,people could throw away their empties while they sit there idling their engines waiting for their precious medium double-double and boston cream.Tim horton’s has made no effort,whatsoever,to deal with the waste problem they create.Instead they promote contest cups which help persuade people not to use travel mugs.Tim Horton’s is just another large,greedy corporation with a fuck-the-environment attitude!