Some governments have begun banning them. Plastic straws contribute to ocean pollution and pose a danger to marine life. The changes will help Starbucks eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year, the company said.
The coffee company announced Monday that it will phase out plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020. Starbucks announced on Monday, that it will ban all the plastic straws at all of its 28,209 stores around the world. Now the caffeine lovers can carry on with their daily routine in an eco-friendly way. The same miniscule two per cent figure shows up in Vancouver’s anti-plastic literature. Starbucks, the coffee giant, has decided to take a bold step towards sustainability by ditching the plastic straws. There were twice as many bottle caps as straws, and ten times as many cigarette butts. The changes will help Starbucks (SBUX) eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year, the company said. The change is part of an environmental drive by Starbucks, making it the largest food and beverage retailer to make such a global commitment. Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws by 2020Ĭoffee giant Starbucks has pledged to stop using single-use plastic straws from all of its stores, replacing them with a strawless lid or alternative-material straw options where available. To follow, Starbucks international shops will implement the new lids by 2020. Starbucks is starting a major rollout of the straw-less lids in Vancouver and Seattle-which recently banned plastic straws and utensils-and plans to have them in all of their North American stores by the end of 2019. “Plastic straws that end up in our oceans have a devastating effect on species.” “Starbucks goal to eliminate plastic straws by 2020 from their stores globally represents the company’s forward thinking in tackling the material waste challenge in totality,” said Erin Simon, director of sustainability research & development and material science at World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Starbucks to ditch plastic straws by 2020 Starbucks, citing the environment threat to oceans, will ban plastic straws from all of its stores globally in less than two years.