Starbucks is an all-American coffee giant, so you think they will be on board with the latest environmental achievements, right? You may have to think again, because Starbucks recently refused to ask customers to improve the recycling habits of this coffee franchise, but many customers are unhappy that guns are still allowed in certain Starbucks locations.
Overall, Starbucks did not vote for changes in processing, although 11% of Starbucks shareholders actually supported this move. This initiative was undertaken in the same way that the methods of processing larger corporations for the production of soft drinks were recently changed for the better. It seems strange that Starbucks does not want to make these efforts for processing, as they were recently targeted by the As You Sow Foundation to make these changes. AYS is a program that promotes corporate accountability by implementing compliance with the Toxic Act Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act in California. The success of this organization has so far spread to the calculations with more than 300 corporate companies to reformulate their products and remove any dangerous ingredients.
For this reason, AYS targets Starbucks because they contribute to landfills of more than 3 billion cups of coffee each year. In addition, their water brand, called Ethos Water, does not contain recycled plastic, which has been used by many other major water brands. It seems that only Starbucks sites in the San Francisco Bay area prefer to fully recycle.
Starbucks & # 39; the answer to these changes was that their cups consist of 10% recycled fiber after the consumer, which makes them compostable in many parts of the United States. Starbucks also said that up to 70% of their stores recycle at least one type of waste, which they claim is dependent on waste management in this area. Starbucks is said to have recently interrogated their views on preventing cannons inside their stores, where they said they would abide by local gun laws in every area so that no weapons were sent to any of their franchises.
The combination of these two recent events may or may not change your perspective on Starbucks, although they are still the leading coffee producer in the United States. Starbucks currently has more than 16,000 stores in more than 40 countries, and they expect all their paper cups to be recycled by 2012. However, the main problem that AYS has in Starbucks is that they do not have any recycling or collection goals for their 3 billion cups sold on an annual basis, especially since the cups are difficult to recycle because they are covered in thin plastic.
Starbucks also seems to be behind many of its peers in the industry, as they still sell drinks in plastic bottles, metal cans and glass bottles. The company has not yet verified the use of recycled materials for its plastic water bottles or has helped to improve bottle recovery results. We'll see what happens in the future for Starbucks and recycling.
