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Vancouverites’ morning cup of joe may abandoned amount a few bucks, but according to the city, the single-use coffee cups are costing taxpayers a big block of change.
["400px"]“Zero Waste” activity administrator Monica Kosmack says the burghal spent $2.5 actor to aggregate coffee cups, fast aliment containers and artificial accoutrements from debris containers beyond the city.
“The cups and containers abandoned accomplish up about bisected of the debris that you see in the clutter cans,” said Kosmack, abacus that such items can, and should, be recycled.
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According to the city, every anniversary 2.6 actor coffee cups are befuddled in the debris in Vancouver.
The burghal will be hosting accessible sessions to apprehend from bodies and stakeholders about what they can do to accomplish their zero-waste goal.
City agents are planning to present a action to board in the new year.
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People absorbed in accommodating can appear the city’s pop-up assurance amplitude or can accelerate acknowledgment online.
As allotment of the Greenest Burghal Action Plan, the Burghal seeks to abate solid decay activity to the landfill or boiler by 50 per cent from 2008 levels by 2020.
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~With files from Geneva Nam
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