Starbucks plans to stop using plastic straws at all of its stores worldwide within the next two years.
The global coffee chain will eliminate all plastic straws by 2020, and will instead cap cold drinks with lids, Starbucks stated in a press statement. Starbucks becomes the most recent company to join a crusade against plastic straws.
The move is a “significant milestone to achieve our global aspiration of sustainable coffee, served to our customers in more sustainable ways,” Kevin Johnson, Starbucks president, and CEO, said in the statement.
Starbucks believes the move will save 1 billion plastic straws a year. The company is not the only chain to wage war on straws. McDonald’s also announced it will stop using plastic straws in stores throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.
U.K. intends to criminalize the use of all plastic waste by 2042. The ban includes stirrers and cotton swabs, two of the major causes of the environmental disaster.
England has already foisted excessive fees on plastic bags in the name of protecting the climate. London, for its part, is also taking part in the campaign to ban items deemed too dangerous for use.
Local officials in the U.S. have also considered banning straws. Three members of Berkeley’s city council in California proposed legislation in the final week of May that would ban plastic straws, reported KPIX. The city has previously banned plastic bags and placed an extra tax on soda.
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The straws must go but those $6.00 drinks in massive plastic cups are just fine .
How long before you bring your own cup , pour your own and pay at a self serve machine . Hmm making it at home for 1/10 the cost is starting to look real good .
Can a Democrat $ donation option be far away ?
Coffee shops and Hollywood should stick to what they are good at .
With the media being run by environmentally zealous zombies, any and all of these “stories” get in the news but anything that does not suit their limited agenda does not. No idea where the tipping point is, but it better happen soon!
Has anyone wondered if these “bans” are feelers for the zeitgeist ?
I think that’s what they are. How stupid are they? Where’s the tipping point?
These modern enviromentalists idiots base everything upon Junk Science and Lies just like with DDT and CFC’s and the Keep it in the Ground idiots its time they found out about the consquences of their movement leading them into a miserble 3rd World of Poverty and famine
This is a farce. Why is a plastic straw sinful, but it’s OK to run a business that requires customers to travel and over pay for a luxury item. If the environmental movement was intelligent and sincere (fat chance), they’d rant against such behaviours. Whittle our lives down to nuts, roots and berries. Hypocrisy!
Let’s play a word game here. General Anthony McAuliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne in 1944. You all know his reply to the Whermacht; ‘NUTS.’
Look around in your life and see the massive numbers of Polymer based products. How would you live in the 21st century without them. What would happen to GDPs if all polymers were banned. From straws, to computers to plumbing to 100s of thousands of products. These loons will not stop at straws.
Give them the message; ‘NUTS.’ You are not going to destroy MODERN civilization. McAuliffe basically said; ‘Over my cold dead body’ and I am afraid that this is applicable to the existing Environmental insanity.