With my new employment status I get to spend a lot more time in Starbucks. I don’t know why I automatically assume Starbucks is an environmentally friendly company. You never hear bad stuff about Starbucks… maybe something years ago about coffee farmers but it seems they’ve corrected that and are now advocates for the coffee growers. Anyway, my husband and I were in there last week sitting right next to one of the garbage cans. I couldn’t get over how much recyclable material was being tossed away. All those cups, wooden stirrers, plastic tops, milk jugs, etc. The final straw was when I saw one of the employees pick up a stack of newspapers and shove it into the waste bin. I stopped him and asked, “don’t you guys recycle????” His response was, “I wish we did” and then handed me a comment form to mail back into Starbucks HQ.
Hmmm. Maybe I’ll talk to the manager – surely they aren’t required to wait on corporate to design some cool bins first!
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