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Environmental concerns are growing globally and all of us are looking for ways to preserve our planet.  Canadians use over 1.6 billion paper coffee cups annually, most of which end up in landfills. A simple act like bringing your own reusable cup with you can have a significant and long lasting impact.

Disposable cup facts:

• Most cups are manufactured using 100% bleached paperboard.
• During the manufacturing process, cups are laminated with a plastic polyethylene resin.
• Once in a landfill the paper will begin to decompose releasing methane gas into the air. Methane is a greenhouse gas with 23 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide.
• The manufacturing process of paper cups is extremely resource intensive.
• The manufacturing process of paper cups requires a substantial amount of water, energy, and a lot of trees. When you purchase one cup of coffee (or tea) in a disposable container every day, you create about 23lbs of waste every year.
• About eighteen percent of garbage we produce is composed of disposable containers.
• Over 650,000 trees were cut down to make 1.6 billion paper cups used by Canadian consumers in 2006, using 400 million gallons of water and resulting in 25.3 million pounds of waste.

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