To: Howard Schultz, CEO
Starbucks! Global Green Up, Please!
Starbucks is a global coffee chain with tremendous reach and resources. It is time they reduced their environmental impact by switching to biodegradable cups, lids, and containers.
Why is this important?
People are growing increasingly aware of the environmental hazards of plastic water bottles; it's time to take it a step further and challenge large corporations to further reduce plastic use and consumption by switching to biodegradable choices where they exist. Starbucks and its subsidiary companies should be leading the change on reducing their environmental impacts by using biodegradable and green to-go products. Further use of single-life plastics is contributing to the global trash epidemic; which is leaving our oceans and lands littered with plastic, creating health hazards and endangering many animal populations.