<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5cd8a0ee-ce25-4b49-8a0d-f042dca03690/19F2389F-45AB-4EDE-BBB7-190BCA6089CA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx" href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">network.nationalpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx">Toronto is willing to take on Tim Hortons, refusing to back down from its threat to outlaw disposable paper cups with plastic lids despite the coffee chain’s opposition.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx">On Tuesday, the city gave Tim Hortons and other hot-drink vendors until the end of 2009 to find a paper lid for their cups or switch to Styrofoam, which can soon be thrown in the blue box.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx">But a Tim Hortons vice-president said the Canadian coffee company would “absolutely not” consider changing its cup because it already can be, and is, fully recycled </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx"><P>By Toronto’s own admission, it’s not that the city can’t recycle paper cups with plastic lids, it’s that it simply doesn’t want to.<BR /></P><P>A city report on the proposed packaging policy said Toronto could buy an optical sorting machine to separate the two materials, but the equipment would cost $3-million and the processing could run about $1-million a year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/05/toronto-refuses-to-back-down-from-coffee-cup-controversy.aspx"> Toronto is skeptical that people would follow the instructions to separate the two pieces on their own</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/19F2389F-45AB-4EDE-BBB7-190BCA6089CA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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