Every year, Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills

In Canada, Starbucks were a little underhanded, however. They made a great show of setting up recycling bins specifically for their disposable cups. This prompted a great number of inquiries from interested parties into how they solved the problem of separating the wax from their paper cups since that is the biggest problem blocking anyone else from recycling them.

Turns out the “recycled” cups were just being taken to landfill after all.

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