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Recyclable cups: Coming to a restaurant near you

Do you cringe every time you finish a meal at a restaurant and toss a disposable cup into the waste bin? You're not alone. A recent study found that 94 percent of Americans are concerned about how their beverage purchases will affect the environment in the long term, and wish it were easier to recycle those dreaded throwaway cups. The good news is beverage companies are listening. Recyclable cups will be making an appearance in more restaurants around America, thanks in part to new efforts by PepsiCo. According to the Clean Air Council , the average American office worker uses about 500 disposable cups annually. Styrofoam cups in particular present a troubling problem, with 25 billion ending up in landfills every year, and the material they're made from – polystyrene – does not biodegrade. Polystyrene may keep your beverage insulated, but there are serious environmental concerns about the toxicity of its main component, Styrene, which pollutes the air during manufacturing and can leach out of polystyrene products into the food and beverages they contain. Even paper cups are a problem, because the plastic resin liner that keeps them from disintegrating when in contact with liquids also renders them un-recyclable at most recycling facilities. Considering that Starbucks alone sells billions of beverages in these cups every year (not to mention the plastic lids and cardboard heat shields), the waste adds up all too quickly. These fountain cups, printed with green imagery and environmental statements like “Wow, Our Cups are Fully Recyclable”, are now available at restaurants, stadiums, theme parks, colleges and universities. The cups are also printed with messages encouraging consumers to visit Earth911.com to learn about how to properly dispose of waste in their own communities. Starbucks aims to make all of its disposable cups, some three billion of which are disposed of every year, fully recyclable by 2012. The company held a 'Cup Summit' in 2009 , discussing ways in which it can improve those statistics, including sorting recyclable cups from waste that can't be recycled and potentially turning the cups into pizza boxes. “Our target is that by 2015 we have recycling available for our customers in all of our stores worldwide where we control waste collection and to serve 25 percent of beverages in reusable cups,” Jim Hanna, Starbucks Director of Environmental Impact, said in a press release.

Mountain View Online : Burglar empties child's bank

Police believe that whoever broke in entered the home by prying open a locked window that was out of sight from the street and neighboring homes, Wylie said. Once inside, they went to work pulling out drawers, emptying boxes and turning every room in the duplex inside out. Police believe the stolen items, which include a variety of jewelry, a 46-inch flat screen TV, silver and gold dollars and a MacBook laptop, were carried out the front door, which was unlocked and opened from the inside. Both children living in the home -- a 13-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy -- each had a large plastic Pepsi bottle standing several feet high in their rooms. The children had collected money in the large bottles for their entire lives. The boy's bottle was emptied; the girl's bottle remained full, although it was apparent that someone had tried to pry the top off. Posting an item on Town Square is simple and requires no registration! Just complete this form and hit "submit" and your topic will appear online. Please be respectful and truthful in your postings so Town Square will continue to be a thoughtful gathering place for sharing community information and opinion. All postings are subject to our TERMS OF USE , and may be deleted if deemed inappropriate by our staff
 
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