A mountain of Timmie's cups

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Sarah Van de Vooren, Fanshawe's Environmental Program Coordinator cleans, up a mountain of Tim Hortons cups that students were encouraged to add to throughout the day on Tuesday, April 3. The pile Van de Vooren accumulated represented 1,400 coffee cups. The Tim Hortons locations on campus distribute approximately 7,400 cups of coffee a day. This pile only represented about 20 per cent of a day's worth of coffee cups! The goal of the display was to communicate how impactful each individual's actions are, as well as ways to divert this waste from landfill using the designated hallway bins or the compost bins in the cafeterias. This waste can also be reduced by using a reusable mug. The effort was part of Environmental Week on campus.