Coffee Cup Deposit-Return Scheme

(Toronto, Ontario) A waste diversion consultant, Clarissa Morawski, has announced that coffee-sellers in Toronto must take action regarding take-out cups.

Companies that sell takeout coffee must create their own deposit-return system that keeps disposable cups out of litter and landfill, or governments will do it for them, says a waste diversion consultant.

And so, police state socialism creeps relentlessly throughout Canada.

It would be logical to expect new taxes to be levied to pay for the scheme. And, of course, a coffee cup recycling enforcement department will have to be created, staffed with Coffee Cup Recycling Officers.

Ominously, coffee stirrers and those little plastic creamer containers are mysteriously missing from the recycling scheme. Chances are that those miscellaneous items related to drinking coffee will magically appear in the enforcement legislation when it is enacted.

Proposed penalties for violations of the coffee cup law have not been disclosed, however, waste diversion consultant Morawski has indicated that they will be harsh. "If they don't act, then the risks are very big. That is the writing on the wall," she said.