Stand Earth Campaign challenges others to join Starbucks in addressing climate, forest impacts of unrecyclable coffee cups

A week after Starbucks committed to bring a fully recyclable and compostable paper cup to market in three years, Stand.earth announces the next phase of its ongoing #BetterCup campaign. In letters to the CEOs of several companies — including McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Tim Hortons, Costa Coffee, Caribou Coffee and Peet’s Coffee — the environmental organization is calling on the coffee retailers to commit within 90 days to “meet or beat” Starbucks’ efforts to reduce the “to-go” coffee industry’s impact on our forests and climate. “After two years of powerful dissonance…

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