Starbucks will open two additional experiential Greener Stores, like in Shanghai, designed to immerse customers in Starbucks Planet Positive commitments - the next is planned for Southern California and Starbucks hometown in Seattle, Wash. The Shanghai Greener Store has been designed and built to reduce waste, repurpose goods and serve as a platform for future innovation. Now, Starbucks is opening its first Greener Store outside of North America in Shanghai,China with a focus on circularity. Today, we expand the Greener Stores benchmark globally to accelerate our progress toward our Planet Positive goals.” “In 2018, we created a new benchmark in retail that goes beyond construction and design to address long-term, eco-conscious operations. “We’ve proven designing and building greener stores is not only responsible, but also good for business,” said Andy Adams, Starbucks senior vice president, Store Development. Meanwhile, 90% of company operated stores have adopted waste diversion and circular practices, including recycling, composting, Grounds for Your Garden, and Starbucks FoodShare. Additionally, state-of-the-art technologies treat and conserve water, reducing annual water use by more than 30%, saving more than 1.3 billion gallons of water annually. That equals the electricity use of more than 30,000 homes per year. With performance-based standards that incorporate design and extend throughout the life of a store, Starbucks Greener Stores in North America have reduced energy consumption by 30% compared with the company’s prior store designs. “I’m proud to say that our partners’ energy and passion for sustainability pushes us every day and is the reason why we’ve seen great adoption of our Greener Store standards.” Building for the future “Our work to become planet positive begins with coffee at origin, and carries through to our stores, right to our customers’ hands,” said Michael Kobori, Starbucks chief sustainability officer. and Canada and will begin using the framework outside of North America to achieve its goal of building and retrofitting 10,000 Greener Stores globally by 2025. Starbucks has more than 2,300 Greener Stores in the U.S. Over the next year, Starbucks to continue the international expansion of this program with Greener Stores opening in Japan, the UK and Chile.Īs Starbucks celebrates its 50 th Anniversary, the company is expanding its open-source Greener Store Framework to help reduce its environmental impact and leverage its scale for good to accelerate the global movement towards a more sustainable future.Īnnounced in 2018, the Greener Store Framework, co-developed with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is designed to accelerate the transformation of retail towards lower-impact stores that achieve reductions in carbon emissions, water usage and landfill waste. The company will open its first Greener Store outside North America in Shanghai, China with a focus on circularity. If you're like me and want to fuel your caffeine addiction without any guilt from extra waste, keep reading to see more of Starbucks's Earth Day cups that you'll want to get your hands on ASAP.Greener Stores allow Starbucks to test solutions for scale to help the company realize its Planet Positive goals to reduce carbon emissions, water usage and landfill waste by 50%. Excited customers that have spotted the cups in-store have shared their findings on Instagram, and other Starbucks enthusiasts are even selling similar tumblers on Etsy. The tonal mint-green cups, which feature a beautiful scene complete with fields, a sunrise, and coffee beans, are available now to celebrate Earth Day, which falls on April 22 this year. I've certainly collected my fair share of their reusable cups, including the sage-green cold cup from their latest launch, so you can imagine my excitement when I found out about their new Earth Day reusable plastic cup! It comes in both a 16-ounce hot tumbler cup and a 24-ounce mint-green cold cup, and they're both beautiful and calming to look at. A post shared by sy0915 one of those people that goes to bed looking forward to getting Starbucks coffee in the morning, but as an environmentalist, I often feel guilty for just how much I frequent my local chain.
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