Pilot program tackles hot-beverage cup recycling
CoRR launches the second phase of its food packaging project to demonstrate the viability of recycling paper cups along with corrugated cardboard into high-value materials.
Global Green USA’s Coalition for Resource Recovery (CoRR) has begun implementation of the second phase of a food-packaging project designed to recycle paper cups and fast food packaging, along with corrugated cardboard, into valuable, high-quality materials. The pilot, a collaboration between CoRR and New York city-area based educational institutions Pratt Institute and The New School, involves recycling paper coffee cups at the The New School’s café.
Phase I of this project involved an eight-week pilot conducted at seven Starbucks stores in Manhattan to collect and recycle its paper hot beverage cups, which were prescreened for recyclability, with old corrugated cardboard (OCC). As CoRR reports, Phase I tests met established targets to merit additional testing.
Phase 2 features prototypes of recycling bins and educational communications developed for a university or cafeteria setting. The consumer education strategies being tested include educational posters, tabletop informational toys, and completely redesigned trash, plastic bottle/aluminum can/glass bottle, mixed paper, and paper cup bins with eye-level signage.
The designs, by Pratt Institute's Center for Sustainable Design Studies (CSDS), were informed by in-store observations conducted during the Starbucks pilot last fall. Students of Pratt Institute’s CSDS and The New School will be examining consumer behaviors over the course of the trial. Cups will be collected and recycled by Action Carting.
CoRR relates that its 2011 goal is to demonstrate the success of the concept at scale. The material will be held for two weeks and surged through a local recycling mill in order to prove the ease of recycling this material, even when a surge in foodservice packaging materials occurs in the OCC stream. The results of recycling this volume of material with OCC as one batch will provide the ‘in the field’ data needed to garner support from other mills and expand to other cities and markets, the group says.
According to data cited by CoRR, every year, 58 billion paper cups are used in the U.S. at restaurants, events, and homes. If all paper cups in the U.S. were recycled, 645,000 tons of waste would be diverted from landfills each year, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 million mtCO2e, equivalent to removing 450,000 passenger cars from the road. If successful, CoRR says the pilot could influence the design of all paper food packaging, potentially increasing the benefits above by ten-fold
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Mostly it was found that plastics are take long period to decompose so it is better to recycle paper cups and food packaging which are the best innovative ideas , applying these procedure will ultimately helps the environment and avoid the increasing amount of global warming, these procedure are also make way for the business growth while taking a step of recycling of products from the waste materials.
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The recycling program doesn't look bad at all but it's success depends on those producing the garbage, it's up to them if they decide to have their coffee cup recycled or not. We have to educate ourselves in order to make the program work and this is exactly what I am going to do, I will make sure the atlanta junk removal won't remove much garbage from my residency from now on.
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