You aren’t using a paper cup are you?

More than 6.5 million trees were cut down in 2006 to create the 16
billion paper cups thrown away. Coffee shop paper cups are not made
from recycled paper because of FDA regulation and the fact that
recycled paper is not strong enough to hold the liquid and prevent hot
coffee leaks and spills.

Therefore most paper cups are made from 100%
virgin paperwood. The reasons for deforestation are numerous,
including logging (to make paper products), increasing farmland,
mining and population expansion. This deforestion creates wastelands
and deserts, but in our opinion there is a far more environmentally
important result.

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With all this in mind I took my Go Green Mug to Seattles Best coffee
shop in the Borders bookshop in the District in Tustin, CA. Seattles
Best offered me a 10 cent discount for using my reusable mug and as I
intended to read a magazine at the shop I was pleased that once again
the barrista filled up my 16 oz. mug and I only paid for a small 12
oz. Remember to take your reusable travel mug into all the coffee
shops you visit and ask them for a discount. Let us know where you
went and the discount offered. If you can get a pic then please send
it to us at support@gogreenmug.com and we will post it in next weeks
blog. Alternatively just comment on the blog and tell us about your
visit.

Also if you have not done it already join our cause on Facebook at
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/196342?m=fa5edc14&recruiter_id=35111682 or on the Starbucks V2V at http://www.v2v.net/actions/go-green-mug

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