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App-based ‘Bring Your Cup’ scheme rewards coffee lovers going green
Now imagine every time you pick up your favourite beverage, you throw away a plastic cup or paper cup containing plastic. A cup that ends up in the rubbish within minutes. Now multiply that by 365 ...
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Customers balk at Starbucks’ new compostable iced drink cups
Despite the coffee-maker’s green intentions ... FILE – A Starbucks frappuccino in a plastic cup. (Shutterstock) Some, meanwhile, took issue with the fact that the cup resembles those for ...
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Returnable purple cup pilot program delivers green results
A three-month effort in 2024 served to-go beverages at 30 restaurants in returnable plastic cups in order to gauge public ...
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Why some Starbucks locations are switching from plastic to paper cups
The Seattle-based coffee company announced this week that about 580 of its stores had begun replacing its cold drinks cups — typically made out of polypropylene, a type of rigid plastic — with ...
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Encinitas carries the war beyond plastic straws
Now, the environmental commission is working on an amendment to require single use foodware be compostable or reusable. Even ...
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Starbucks Quietly Phases Out Plastic Cups at 580 Stores. Here’s Why.
The Seattle-based coffee company announced this week that about 580 of its stores had begun replacing its cold drinks cups — typically made out of polypropylene, a type of rigid plastic ...
New York Post28d
Starbucks is making a big change to cups — but some iced coffee lovers will be mad
Starbucks fans are not hot about this cold drink change. Cold coffee orders will no longer come in a plastic cup in some Starbucks locations — rather, they’ll be served in fiber-based ...