Re: Recycling

communityservice@starbucks.com — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:16:33 GMT

I am currently experiencing the same situation, and I am determined to find a way! In fact, my motivation came from a customer today; she was the cutest little girl and she came up to the bar and asked if we had a recycling for her empty plastic h2o bottle. It was a small thing, but her concern and effort gave me hope and inspiration! We can do this!

The way I feel is Starbucks still has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to the basic paper/plastic recycling, and I hope we can come up with a permanent solution sooner rather than later -

However, we still have Grounds for Garden, and I think stores should try to re-launch (or something) in their area to get the program rolling again. In San Francisco, composting is mandatory, and I really hope it starts to spread! but if one or two stores got a compost bin and started to collect that, we could send it to the local schools for their science projects and stuff.

And my last idea, instead of just putting the newspapers in the recycle bin at night, we could save them and donate them to places like schools, after school programs (i.e. Boys and Girls Club, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts ect.) local theater houses, anything really that could recycle it! I just remember in school always doing art projects like paper machete, or English class, when we would have to pick articles from newspapers and do a report on them.

Sorry this is so long! I haven't tried this yet at my store, but I plan to try an introduce the ideas very soon. I hope this helped, Good luck!

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Re: Recycling