Starbucks is eliminating plastic straws from all stores

CNN Money ^ | July 9, 2018 | Danielle Wiener-Bronner

[EdnaMode]

Starbucks is going strawless.

The coffee company announced Monday that it will phase out plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020.

The changes will help Starbucks (SBUX) eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year, the company said.

Plastic straws contribute to ocean pollution and pose a danger to marine life. Some governments have begun banning them.

To eliminate straws, Starbucks is transitioning from the flat, plastic lids that require them, to ones that feature a raised lip you can drink from. The new designs have drawn comparisons to an adult "sippy cup."

Frappuccino drinks will still be served with dome lids, but with straws made from paper or compostable plastic. Coffee drinkers who prefer straws for other beverages can request the new eco-friendly versions.

Some Starbucks drinks, like cold brew with cold foam, are already served in cups with strawless lids.

[Rebelbase]

How did we survive before plastic straws and grocery bags, and seasonal-only fresh fruit and vegetables?

[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t forget, he was on the A Team too.

[Kickass Conservative]

Wasn’t there an recent Article saying 90% of all the Oceans Plastic Pollution came from ten Rivers in Africa and Asia?

I didn’t realize Starbucks had locations in Africa and Asia.

[Nifster]

How ya gonna drink a frapp?

[DesertRhino]

We stopped using paper straws for a better product.

[Parmy]

"I never understood why they changed from paper straws"

Because, don't you know, paper straws were made from paper.

Paper was made from processed wood.

Processed wood came from trees.

A tree had to dies just so you could have a straw.

See, that's how it works.

Now oil is causing 'global climate change'.

It is deja vu all over again.

It never ends.

[small business owner]

Those of us with tremors have to drink coffee with a straw

[klimeckg]

Incinerating plastic is NOT harmful to the environment.

https://phys.org/news/2013-12-plastic-cleanly-natural-gas.html

On a side note, has anyone ever wonder why the Lord switched from water to fire in judging? In the end the Lord heats the earth up so hot that all man made stuff is incinerated. Also let’s not forge that Satan and all that follow him are tossed in the Lake of fire. So, IMHO incinerating today is the right thing as it will become the process that the Lord uses.

Incinerating plastic is the best solution!

[sergeantdave]

Why not radiator hoses? They’re usable for 50,000 miles of coffee.

[UB355]

time to stock up and store them next to my collection of 100 watt light bulbs

[Responsibility2nd]

Its a place that sells burned coffee. At twice the normal price.

Sheeple flock there by the millions.

[Mears]

Paper straws don’t last as long as the plastic ones for this insane society that drinks beverages while driving.

We can all remember when cars has no place to put cups.

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[SoFloFreeper]

I’m sure it’ll make a major difference.

Wait what?

https://news.sky.com/story/just-10-rivers-carry-90-of-plastic-polluting-the-oceans-11167581

[TomGuy]

a raised lip you can drink from

Disasters waiting to happen.

Unless the 'cup' is heavy duty -- such as plastic, it could easily bend inward, releasing the plastic cover with 'a raised lip you can drink from', causing the hot coffee to spill onto a person's chest.

But, hey, the replacement feature idea sounded good when it was proposed.

Now, they need a special counter line for lawsuits.

[McGavin999]

We need to save them so we have terrifying and destructive forest fires.

[CedarDave]

Starbucks stock price is waaaaay down. They have reached market saturation and are closing some 150+ stores. Their CEO and CFO have quit...............

Here in Oil Patch City we have a Starbucks down the road next to a Walmart which I have never been in. A local Starbucks-type coffee shop has a drive-up window that always has a long line. Inside are a selection of homemade baked pastries, pleasant tables with free wi-fi and two big screen TV's. CNN? Never, but Fox News closed captioned!

[NormsRevenge]

For their next act, they will eliminate all paying customers.

I haven’t been in a Starbuck’s in a while, btw, and have no plans to any time soon.

[zeugma]

Next, they’ll come for the cups. Will Starbucks be the first to go BYOM (bring your own mug)?

They kinda already do. You get 10¢ off if you use your own cup.

[elbook]

Its for the Sea Urchins !!!

[JimRed]

Burning plastic in the traditional manner creates extremely polluting byproducts, as evidenced by the black smoke produced by the cup. But this didn't thwart Levendis, who noted that plastic contains the same amount of energy per pound as premium fuel.

I was not aware that there is a "good" way to burn plastic.