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Green coffee! Montreal, Canada plans to charge extra for paper cups

Published: 2026-05-18 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/05/18, To reduce the impact of garbage on the environment, some coffee shops in Montreal, Canada, encourage customers to bring their own coffee cups and consider charging extra for paper coffee cups. According to reports, the idea was first developed by Olivia S, an environmental research major at McGill University.

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To reduce the impact of garbage on the environment, some coffee shops in Montreal, Canada, encourage customers to bring their own coffee cups and consider charging extra for paper coffee cups.

According to reports, the idea was first proposed by Olivia St. Laurent, a student majoring in environmental studies at McGill University. She said the owner of the Cafe Paquebot coffee shop agrees with her and is considering charging an extra C $0.25 for each coffee cup, which will be invested in environmental protection in the future.

"my idea is to improve companies' sense of responsibility for the environment, and I also hope that consumers will realize that their way of life will also have an impact on the environment." Olivia said she looked closely at Montreal's environmental reports and found that the landfills around the city were full of beverage bottles, cans and paper coffee cups, which were increasingly loading the environment. "I hope that big companies such as Starbucks, Tim Horton's and McDonald's will keep up with the pace of environmental protection and eventually put the idea into practice."

Earlier this year, Britain considered imposing a 25-cent tax on paper coffee cups. With reference to this initiative, a number of coffee shop owners in Montreal plan to hold meetings in the near future to promote the initiative in more coffee shops.

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