Starbucks: The Best Coffee Around

Starbucks is one of the largest known coffee distributors within the United States. Their mission statement is “To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time”. Their objective is to be one of the most well known and respected brands around the world. With 21,366 stores around the world, operating in 65 countries, they are a major company that has influence on the economy in the United States and around the world (Starbucks 2015).

However, Americans use 58 billion cups a year and around 20 million trees are cut down in the process. One of Starbucks ads from 2013 says “100% recycled paper”. Therefore, it makes you feel as if you buy their product you are going green. Another ad, also created in 2013, shows a Starbucks cup with steam coming out of it. It’s not just any steam, it’s in a shape of a tree to show that, again, they are recycling and using recycled paper. This makes the consumers think that buying their product will continue their use of recycling and make the consumer feel

“In 2012 the estimated turnover for coffee shops was £5.8 billion” - Allegra Strategies UK Retail Coffee Shop Market Report Dec 2012. “We have become a nation of coffee lovers and even coffee geeks” said Jeffery Young of UK coffee week. In this way, KFC has successfully target their first generation consumers and as well as addresses on corporate social responsibility. “Other companies have been producing similar products such as —Lavazza, the Italian coffee brand, had edible cookie cups, while Coolhaus sells its ice cream sandwiches in potato starch wrappers printed with inks made from vegetables. In New York, Dominique Ansel Bakery offers a chocolate-chip shot, with organic milk poured into a cookie cup,” by Stephanie Storm The New York

And in addition to expanding the areas that are able to recycle the materials Starbucks' cups are made out of, the next biggest step is getting consumers to switch up their habits of tossing the cup in the garbage bin to tossing it in the recycle

Approximately, how many customers do you see in there? It is said that about 15% of the Canadian population visit Tim Horton’s every day. Fresh Facts | Corporate. (2016, July 06). A majority of them probably in there buying a cup of coffee, which means that millions of coffee cups are being used each day. We have a slight problem. Yes, Tim Horton’s cups are recyclable, but it’s only accepted at certain locations. Can the Tim Hortons cup be recycled? (2016, March 18). An article from CBC news stated that Tim Horton's coffee cups were being lined with either wax or plastic preventing the cups to be recycled everywhere but specific blue bins. News, C. (2016, June 21). When you finish your double-double, don't toss your cup in the recycling bin, I think that Tim Horton’s should change up their packaging by eliminating the plastic and wax they placed on their cups and making it environmentally friendly. Including the plastic lids, they use for the cups. I would also make it my first priority to put recycling bins in more areas, because right now, since there are not many blue bins consumers are throwing their cups in the garbage can and that eventually lands up in landfills. If there were more blue bins, Customers will most likely throw their cups in the recycling

In Boost Juice we always try to minimize packaging and use renewable resources, and in 2012 we introduced and started using paper cups and it’s add value to environment

In addition, the recycling paper cups should be more regulated on recycling contracts that largest coffee companies like Starbucks and Tim Hortons make with private facilities to handle the cups. “Unfortunately today, in most places, hot beverage cups like coffee, tea, hot chocolate cups, do end

For starters, the cups generally used are not all necessarily made of any heat-isolating material, and the cap covers available are not always spill-free either. Nevertheless, and in spite of it, there is nothing else more annoying and awkward than holding onto a hot cup of coffee with one hand, while

Take your kid to the store to pick out his or her own cup. Find a place that sells cups with their favourite characters on it, and suddenly this cup becomes the greatest thing in the world. Your child will want to use it exclusively, and you can quietly make the sippy cups disappear. Unless...

Paper cups are a disposable cup made out of thin sheets of wood or as people today usually know it as... paper. Paper cups are usually lined with wax or plastic to keep the liquids on the inside from spilling. Cups of paper were first used around 1907 and were produced by Dixie Cup. Paper cups are made from wood chips turned into pulp. The Royal Society of Chemistry estimates 33 grams of wood go into each cup. Paper cups are biodegradable and can be recycled.

Place coasters on your cup holders – This will make it easier for you to clean especially in case of accidental spills from your coffee cup. We all hate it when our drink spills on the side of our glass or cup. The coasters will help absorb and prevent your drink from seeping in the hard to reach corners of your cup holder.

The production of the disposable coffee cup also effects the environment. According to EPA Distribution (2017)

The stock market is a financial innovation that has had many positive effects on the economic growth of businesses and consumers. Consumers have been encouraged to invest in stock because they are able to potentially earn profit from successful businesses. Investing in stocks also helps companies grow and become prosperous by using the money funded by consumers. I decided to study the stock performances of Nike, Starbucks, and Whole Foods. I initially believed that Nike and Starbucks would be the most lucrative investments because these companies are extremely popular amongst consumers.

As a coffee company, one thing they can do to reducing waste is to recycle those used cups in the global company-owned stores. In 2008 Starbucks set a goal to “implement front-of-store recycling in all stores located in U.S. and Canada by 2015”.(Starbucks, 2008) Figure 1 and 2 show that the percentage of store locations with front-of-store recycling rose dramatically from 5 per cent in 2010 to 47 per cent in 2014. However, it is still far from the 100 per cent goal and only finished near half of the goal. Although about half stores in U.S. and Canada have recycle system and recycle bins, it only can recycle a little part of the total use. “The problem is that Starbucks customers don 't throw away enough

Among steps taken by RHB, one of them is by distributing 17, 000 RHB PRIDE mugs to every RHB employee with the aim to reduce the use of disposable cups and discourage them to use any by using mug. Another step of commitment shown by RHB is by introducing paper recycling programme. The programme is conducted at RHB Centre and Bangi Complex.