Coffee cups get recycling reprieve (Toronto)

by John Spears
City Hall Bureau

Toronto coffee shops will get a second chance to come up with a plan for curbing the flood of throwaway paper cups – a million a day – that flow into the city's garbage bins.

But councillors on the city's works committee say they want to move ahead on a proposal requiring stores to give customers a 10-cent refund if they bring their own bag instead of using a plastic one.

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