Starbucks Sustainability Actions

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Bio-Degradable disposable plates & cutlery are now in all stores.

In line with our Company values and ongoing initiative to support our environment in a positive way, Starbucks Australia is proud to be making a change to our plastic plates and cutlery. Effective immediately we will be using BioPak’s Bagasse carbon neutral plates made from sugar cane pulp and BioCutlery made using 70% biobased content. With this one initiative alone, we will eliminate 88,704 kg of plastic.

Taking on climate change.

When research indicates that coffee-growing regions will be impacted directly by climate change, it's something we take seriously. So we're aggressively pursuing a climate change strategy, including finding ways to minimise our use of energy, water and other resources (being “green”). We're upgrading existing stores and building new stores to use 25 percent less energy. And we plan to incorporate recycled and renewable materials when it's time to remodel them. We're also more than doubling our “green” energy purchases.

Toward 100% reusable or recyclable cups

Our disposable cups have a visible impact on our overall environmental footprint, and our customers expect better from us. Our goal is for 100 percent of our cups to be reusable or recyclable. We're working hard every day on ways to make that goal a reality.

Toward 100% recycling in our stores

Our customers care about recycling too. In fact, we get more customer comments about recycling than any other environmental issue. We know we need to improve in this area. And we aim to have recycling available in 100 percent of our stores where we control the waste.