Tim Hortons Cross-checks City Into Submission
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 11.13.08
The late Tim Horton never let anyone push him around, and neither does his eponymous coffee chain. They just body-checked and high-sticked the City of Toronto into submission on its plans to reduce waste, so much of which comes from that one hugely successful chain.
The City calls it a "compromise".
"This allows industry and leaders like Tim Hortons to sit down with the city on how we are actually going to reduce the volume of garbage going into our garbage dumps," said committee chairman Glenn De Baeremaeker "How do we get 365 million coffee cups out of the garbage stream and into the recycling stream?"
Simple. You dump them on his doorstep. But Timmy stomped his skates and refused to change his cups or lids, or to contribute to the three million dollar cost of recycling machinery to separate them. And for some reason, he got his way.
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