For years there has occasionally risen a hue and cry about Tim Horton's cups as highway litter in league with fast food containers and wrappers, and someone will write a letter to the editor about something needing to be done to make Tim's a better corporate environmental citizen. Their website says they are trying to improve: "We put anti-litter messages on all of our packaging items, including a "Do Not Litter" message on all of our take-out cups"; "Many Tim Hortons restaurants sponsor local clean up events ad activities in their communities"; "Tim Hortons is one of the few quick service restaurants to offer china mugs, plates and bowls to guests eating in our restaurants. This helps to reduce paper waste being created in the first place" and "All Tim Hortons restaurants sell reusable Tim Mugs with the incentive for purchasing a Tim Mug is that the first coffee is free (coupon included inside the Tim Travel Mug) and each refill gets a 10 cent discount (hot beverage discount applies to any travel mug fill)."
So, it seems that Tim's is doing something to keep the paper cups from appearing as cast off garbage everywhere. So it comes down to the people who find this coffee and other beverages from there so irresistible. Truthfully, the coffee is not very good, in my opinion. I will drink it when there is absolutely nothing else available. To me, it always tastes burned. No amount of doctoring it makes it truly palatable. Sorry, it's me, not you. I can be a coffee snob, preferring expensive free-trade, small batch roasted, fresh-ground beans, but I'd still opt for an Irving Circle-K brew before Tim Horton's.
How hard can it be to walk to a trash bin to throw away your cup? Must you leave it on the shelf with the housewares or sheets at Winners? Don't tell me you put it down and forgot it with the frozen peas. I don't want to see it on the edge of a display of bestsellers at Coles, either.
Pick up and dispose of those darn cups!!!!
