Starbucks

Sell more things 💯 Disposables are wasteful and usually not as good. No real need ever for disposable and i can’t wait to see what’s next.

Went to a restaurant today- this last day of the challenge and after having to ‘ask’ for a straw we were given a straw made out of agave?! It was incredible- hard, didn’t melt or mush like our paper ones and it was perfect. We need these at Starbucks!

De-bunk the myth. Share the reality and inform all the moms and dads who choose reusable but really aren’t getting reusables…This is crazy and people should know!

Share the ‘why.’ So many people don’t know the importance of reducing packaging… make it personal for them and make it resonate. Then you’ll have their buy in, their support and they too will support in the journey towards less packaging and reducing waste.

It has been interesting to learn how the infrastructure (or lack of) impacts how waste is handled in different areas - and the downstream impacts it causes. I think the most frustrating part is that the cost to "fix" all of the problems is higher than the cost to just change the way businesses source or manufacture products to begin...

I watched A Plastic Ocean. I learned about the millions of pounds of plastic that flows into our oceans every hour. I also learned that billions of people on earth rely on the ocean for their protein. I was surprised to learn how plastic travels once in the ocean. Sounds like there are a lot of future ideas on how to deal with the plastic we...