Starbucks Wants to Get Rid of Single-Use Packaging

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) produces a lot of waste. Customers still use plastic straws, throw away their cups, and go through tens of millions of bags and napkins each month. The company has made efforts to use recyclable items, and to offer cups that make drinking without a straw easy, but its efforts still have it sending products to landfills.

Now the company wants to do better. CEO Kevin Johnson has "unveiled a multi-decade aspiration to be a resource-positive company, giving more than it takes from the planet." The new initiative includes "science-based preliminary target reductions of carbon, water and waste by 2030," and offers "five strategies the company has identified to move toward them."

Starbucks has already created a cup that makes it easier to drink without a straw. Image source: Starbucks.

Continue reading

Source Fool.com