Starbucks Korea to End Use of Paper Straws After Customer Complaints
The use of paper straws was a bad idea from the start and it appears Starbucks Korea is trying to couse change:
Around 200 Starbucks stores in South Korea are testing out plant-based plastic straws after customers complained about the durability of the coffee chain’s paper straws. Starbucks Korea, which operates approximately 2,000 stores, on Wednesday introduced bioplastic straws made from sugarcane, a company spokeswoman said by phone Thursday.
The company received complaints — many of them from customers at branches in hospitals and family housing districts — about the durability of the paper straws, prompting Starbucks to explore other materials, the spokeswoman said.
You can read more at the link, but what is the most ridiculous thing about the paper straws is that depending on what you order, they serve it to you in a plastic cup with a plastic lid. If Starbucks was so concerned about the environment why didn’t they use only paper cups and biodegradable lids?
This decision is really bad.
I was told paper straws were the answer to better weather a hundred years from now by a billionaire who flew their private jet to meeting of billionairs where they all standardized the language they would use to scold me into reducing my lifestyle.
Anybody who takes global warming seriously is too stupid to live.
Go get your next booster, stupid person.
Paper straw for a plastic cup.
That is #Science!
You’re welcome.
(kind of reminds me of Colorado…where you can’t get a bag to put the plastic encased food in because plastic bags are bad. Or the time they shut down one of the trains at the Denver airport during covid so everyone would be more packed in…because covid. Actually the list of this type of stupidity around here is pretty endless)
But the virtue-signalling boost they got when they went to paper straws was totally worth it…