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RESOLUTION: Starbucks Corporation – Request Sustainable Packaging
Filing Year: 2018 Company: Starbucks Corporation Download PDF WHEREAS: Starbucks Corporation has emphasized a commitment to environmental leadership, yet failed to attain key environmental commitments. Starbucks continues to use mostly single use cups and service ware, … MORE
Starbucks Sustainable Packaging Resolution
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Starbucks issue a report to shareholders, to be prepared at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, fulfilling its environmental leadership commitments by scaling up efforts through a comprehensive policy … MORE
Tim Hortons, Starbucks Recycling Claims May Be Garbage
CBC NEWS – October 30, 2015 – Canada’s largest coffee chains are misleading customers about what happens to cups collected in their in-store recycling bins. A CBC Marketplace investigation reveals that many paper cups collected … MORE
Starbucks and Tim Hortons in Canada May Not Actually Be Recycling Their Coffee Cups
DAILY MEAL – October 30, 2015 – Coffee chains in Canada may boast that they recycle their disposable, paper coffee cups, but a new investigation finds that that may not be the case.
Four Ways Starbucks Can Fix Its Cup Recycling Dilemma
GREENBIZ – November 9, 2015 – Starbucks’ trailblazing efforts to reduce the use of coffee cups and to recycle cups customers use hit turbulence in October with revelations that cups deposited in recycling bins in … MORE
Starbucks – Consumer Packaging – 2010
As You Sow is concerned that Starbucks lags beverage industry peers on recycling and recycled content policies for its beverage containers – paper cups, plastic water bottles, and glass and metal coffee containers. Our proposal … MORE
Starbucks – Consumer Packaging – 2011
Starbucks Corp. has repeatedly emphasized its commitment to environmental leadership, yet has no comprehensive recycled content or container recovery strategy for the plastic, glass, paper and metal containers its beverages are sold in.
Interview with Starbucks VP of Global Responsibility, Ben Packard
TRIPLE PUNDIT – With today’s launch of Starbucks’ tenth annual Global Responsibility Report for 2010, Ben Packard spoke with me about what the company has accomplished this year and what challenges lie ahead in achieving their environmental stewardship, community involvement and ethical sourcing targets.
Why Bottle Recycling in the U.S. Is Still Just a Drop in the Bucket
Press Coverage
Starbucks Downsizes Goal for Reusable Cups
THE SEATTLE TIMES – The coffee colossus no longer aims to get 25 percent of drinks served in ceramic mugs or customers’ tumbler. (…) Starbucks makes no small plans, but occasionally one of its endeavors … MORE
Starbucks Coffee
Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain. It is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, operating in 62 countries. The company has made an impressive commitment to recycle all post-consumer … MORE
At Starbucks: Paper or Plastic?
USA TODAY – January 3, 2013 – Amid public pressure to curb trash from disposable cups, Starbucks is rolling out a novel possible solution today: a $1 reusable tumbler.
As You Sow Pushes McDonald’s, Target
RESOURCE RECYCLING – July 7, 2011 – As You Sow, a group that seeks corporate accountability through shareholder advocacy, has announced the results of some its recent campaigns.
Starbucks Cup Recycling: What’s the Holdup?
Press Coverage
Waste & Opportunity: U.S. Beverage Container Recycling Scorecard and Report
As You Sow’s third scorecard and report on beverage container recycling evaluates new and ongoing efforts by beverage producers to reduce source materials, create recyclable product packaging, and increase container recovery rates. MORE
Not a Peet’s Peep from Starbucks at Annual Meeting
THE SEATTLE TIMES – March 23, 2011 – For all the hype and glamour, Starbucks’ shareholders meeting Wednesday came down to this: a recap of the past 40 years, a look at the chain’s already … MORE
Pressing Starbucks to Follow Through on Recycling Commitments
TRIPLE PUNDIT – March 21, 2011 – How would you feel if a company publicly promised to reduce reliance on disposable paper cups but then didn’t set up a way to track its progress?
Starbucks’ Cup Dilemma
FAST COMPANY – Oct. 20, 2010 – “What are you going to do about this damn cup?” A story of Starbucks and the limits of corporate sustainability.
Genetically Engineered Food and Financial Risk
The controversy over genetically modified food has the potential to result in large-scale market and consumer backlash, which together pose material risks for investors of companies using GMOs. These material risks include the potential for … MORE
