Tim Hortons Launches “Cup-to-Tray” Recycling Program First Canadian QSR to introduce “closed-loop” program, turning hot beverage cups into take-out trays in Nova Scotia. Challenge Over the past two years, Tim Hortons has been working with Scotia Recycling Limited to collect cups at all 156 traditional Tim Hortons restaurants across Nova Scotia and deliver them to Hantsport-based paper product manufacturer CKF Inc. Initially cups were blended with other waste papers and made into a variety of paper products, helping divert Tim Hortons cups from municipal landfills across the province. Tim Hortons and CKF looked to establish a process that converts the cups into take-out trays used at Tim Hortons restaurants and other products, effectively closing the loop on the company’s hot beverage cupre

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