Buying Coffee From A Coffee Shop

Hi Jill, I used Starbucks as one of the companies I wrote about in this week's written assignment. While it's nice to treat myself to go out and get coffee sometimes, I barely ever do because, aside from the price, I hate the waste that these places produce. Think about how many people Starbucks serves a day worldwide, and the majority of those cups are going to be thrown away. Now, they do have reusable cups that you can bring in to be filled, but many people, myself included, don't remember to do that. Or it's such a spontaneous trip to the coffee shop, that you can't always think ahead to have your reusable cup with you. So it was nice to read about how Starbucks is making their cups out of materials that are certified recyclable material in most

Because caffeine negatively affects human bodies. Also, the company can use reusable containers instead of plastics and boxes to reduce wastes and environmental pollution. For the company to create a good image, Starbucks coffee company can start a waste management or charity campaign to help the society or contribute in reducing wastes, protecting the environment plantation of forests. This will increase the market share for the company because most people will be happy to shop with a company which cares about the society and the environment they live in. it will also create a good image and reputation for the company giving it more opportunities to create a leading and well-known brand and win its

Plastic pollution is one of today’s most pressing problems, and minimizing the use of straws is a feasible and realistic step in the right direction. Although the problem of pollution is widely understood, the extent of the damage by plastic straws is not as known or acknowledged. Education of children and adults is an integral component of shifting cultural norms and mindsets. With a more informed population, people will be more likely to refuse and forgo plastic utensils. Furthermore, businesses and influential icons play a vital role in this opportunity. Some restaurants give out both a cup and straw as a mere convenience and a no-straw policy implementation in such businesses can make a big difference. By initially targeting coastal areas of the United States to adopt eco-friendly methods, eventually this transition could inspire a nation-wide law to ban plastic straws to globally shift society-environment interactions to sustainability. While eliminating plastic straws entirely is ideal, it is difficult to make an abrupt shift; an attainable solution is to gradually switch to bio-degradable and eco-friendly straws like glass, metal,

Is your cup half empty or half full when you think about all of the disposable Tim Horton cups you've put in the landfills? Yearly, Tim Hortons sells billions of disposable cups filled with coffee. The amount of coffee we drink out of paper cups, is quickly filling up our landfills and harming the earth. If we all put our minds together, we can come up with innovative ways to solve this problem. Although they may be convenient, the excessive use of disposable cups if harming our environment.

The idea of plastic cups that can be thrown away is a wonderful concept, but red solo cups are made with a type of plastic called polystyrene (PS or the recycling #6) which is very harmful to the environment. The Toby Keith song R ed Solo Cup is a very popular country song. He says I'm his song that red Solo cups are decomposable and in all actuality it takes more like 450 years for a red Solo cup to decompose. Since polystyrene Is made from petroleum products as well as other things it is not widely recycled because it does not break down over time.

Also according to Now and Forever The Styrofoam Dilemma, “three million tons of polystyrene that are produced in the U.S.of 2.3 million tons end up in landfills, with much of the remainder finding its way into waterways and styrofoam cups get thrown away by americans an estimated about 25 billion every year, or about 82 cups per person”(Catherine Solyom, 2015). In the article “Why Ban Styrofoam?” it says that “Styrofoam should not be out in the environment because the cups that get tossed into the trash today will still be in a landfill hundreds of years from now taking up 500 years to break down and that styrofoam products pose a risk to lakes, streams, and wildlife when waterways get blocked by the broken-down styrofoam and animals getting it mistaken for food and that also it’s a hazardous to our own health because when it gets heated it releases toxins”(Nicky LaMarco 2009). Lastly styrofoam affect our watershed by people who throwaway their styrofoam cups and it gets gathered into the landfills where it goes down into the waterways and blocks them. Overall this is why I chose this as a

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

According to ecowatch.com, all the plastic humans added up thrown away added up can circle the Earth four times. This is around 500 billion plastic bags, and most of them end up on landfill sites. The plastic bags in landfills usually lay there for over 300 years until they are completely photodegraded, or decomposed by the light, especially sunlight. During the process of being photodegraded, the plastic bags break down into small toxic particles that are either released into the air, or into the soil. These small toxic particles contaminate many different things such as soil and waterways. Since it is in the soil and waterways, animals often come and end up eating these dangerous toxic particles. Some supermarkets use biodegradable bags that are said to be “environment friendly,” but that is a total lie. According to an article about plastic bag pollution by Sharon Jacobsen, it says, “...the truth is that the process of breaking down these petrol based bags causes carbon to become methane which is a greenhouse gas.” Greenhouse gases are very dangerous to the environment since it causes temperature increase around the whole entire globe. Therefore, in conclusion, neither plastic bags or so-called “environment friendly” bags are good for the environment all around us, and we should not use them. Instead, we should use reusable

We can’t only blame the consumers for the things occurring in our world. If less plastic packaging were used and more paper or glass packaging were used it would really benefit the world. Looking at plastic water bottles many say that they are recycled or reusable but they aren’t always

Today, people may use Starbucks cups, as a “to-go” cup, conveniently for our society's busy lives. The Starbucks cup is shaped like an open cylindrical container with a flat bottom and without handles. Starbucks provides lids for the paper and plastic cups with a hole in it for either sipping or to insert a straw for drinking. However, because they are made from paper and plastic they are easier to dispose of after use. The Starbucks cup is made up of mostly paper and it also contains a petro-chemical based polyethylene plastic, which makes it impossible to recycle. Starbucks has an optional sleeve for the cups to protect your hands from burning from the hot temperatures of the beverages. The sleeves are made out

Widespread consumerism and the materialistic society we live in has many detrimental effects on the environment. The factories, vehicles, and resources used to sustain our goods-based economy contribute greatly to global climate change, pollution, and deforestation. Your coffee beans from Starbucks are harvested from dying out forests in South America, among other places, and shipped to the location nearest you by using excessive quantities of non-renewable fossil fuels, all so you can receive your morning pick-me-up. While refraining from purchasing that coffee on Buy Nothing Day alone will not provide an immediate solution to the issue at hand, the ideals preached by the yearly event can make the participants

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

The acceptance of disposable paper coffee cups and their plastic lids as recycling marked a major milestone in these sustainability programs. Prior to this change, Western produced 12,000 disposable coffee cups on campus per day, with all 12,000 ending up in the landfill [3]. Following

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

Unlike companies that avoid the plentiful of disadvantages recycling have when compared to reusing, there are some other companies intentionally attack this point as a way of advertisement to show the benefit of choosing reusable instead of recyclable. The advantages of reusable cups are quite obvious, but people tend to overlook and ignore them. It is easy to find many of them when we look at an advertisement, since advertisements can always give people a brief and clear look at the upsides of a product. Thermos is a leading brand manufacturing beverage container. It produced many durable and innovative travel cups. When browsing through the product list, there is one product whose advertisement especially targets the environmental friendliness