En juillet dernier, la ville californienne de Petaluma a collaboré avec des restaurants locaux pour créer un programme de retour et de réutilisation des gobelets à boissons à l'échelle de la ville, garantissant que les clients ne paieraient pas un centime pour les gobelets réutilisables, mais qu'ils seraient invités à les déposer après usage.
According to a report by NextGen, more than 220,000 cups were used and returned in the city of 60,000, with 80 percent of respondents saying they wanted the programme to continue.
Launched by the Centre for the Circular Economy, this was designed to reduce the 50 billion disposable cups used by Americans every day.
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