Starbucks announces new environmental
goals after Post trash raid
by
Jon Levine
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/3/2020 12:00:23 PM
Starbucks is brewing up a new environmental plan. After a New York Post investigation showing rampant food waste at company stores across New York City, the coffee shop empire has rolled out a new set of ambitious green goals. “Today, more than ever, the world needs leadership in environmental sustainability,” Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said in a statement last week.(Snip) During a nighttime raid of Starbucks’ trash recently, Sacks, a former investment banker who now works at a waste reduction consultancy, found a small mountain of healthy, unsold food. Many of the sandwiches and snack packages Starbucks employees discarded were still in their original wrapping.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jacksin5 2/3/2020 12:18:24 PM (No. 305978)
Whatever happened to giving food scraps,and unsold food to pig farmers?
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#1 I met a good friend of the guy in Las Vegas that takes leftover food from casinos and feeds it to his pigs. Very ingenious indeed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mackrand 2/3/2020 12:33:33 PM (No. 305989)
Just this one time it’s ok to call me a “Pig” if I can get put on the rotation for outdated food and have it delivered!! I rarely have leftover leftovers. S/o
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/3/2020 12:45:55 PM (No. 305995)
I work in a grocery store. The amount of foods we regularly dispose of (above the equally stunning amounts of donated goods) could feed small countries. We do this with an OCD-like over abundance of precaution no doubt spurred by fear of legal liability. It also would be time consuming and expensive to recycle in any meaningful way including separating it for "hogs" but again would be the liabilities if it were diverted for any other use. Plus the fear of bacteria/viruses that could result if mishandled, even for hogs. The problem is with the vast array presented to customers who like variety and choice. Speaking as one from behind the counter - people are quite picky. We are switching over to more and more pre-prepared, pre-packaged and portioned, which ought to blow the enviro's minds. Not to mention all the chemicals to keep it fresh longer in it's package. And we toss those out by the shopping carts (daily!!) as well. And that's just my store. Multiply that. So, I kinda like that there is such a thing as a 'waste reduction consultancy'.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/3/2020 12:56:24 PM (No. 306006)
Maybe they should give some thought to just selling coffee.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 2/3/2020 12:58:56 PM (No. 306007)
The food delivery service Imperfect Foods is one company that tries to do something with good food that would normally end up in the trash bin. And while I don't always agree with Starbucks wackiness, I do applaud any effort to try to redistribute perfectly good food to places where it will be consumed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
XCenturion 2/3/2020 1:03:31 PM (No. 306008)
Here's an idea. Stop buying overpriced coffee from an openly liberal, anti cop, business.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JL80863 2/3/2020 1:41:22 PM (No. 306023)
If Starbucks is able to absorb the costs of gross mismanagement , they are charging way too much for their coffee. But we all knew that.
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Enoch Powell 2/3/2020 1:57:58 PM (No. 306038)
My favorite coffee place in Harvard Square was bought out by Starbucks. I told the guy behind the counter ''I hate Starbucks.' The 'barista' asked, 'do you know why? They buy under ripe beans and over roast them.' Ahh! That burnt taste explained! Also the owner is a liberal screw.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/3/2020 2:15:14 PM (No. 306050)
If people are stupid enough to pay $7 for a non-alcoholic beverage, you can throw out tons of food and still make a huge profit.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/3/2020 2:27:57 PM (No. 306055)
How much food waste can there be? None of it is prepared on site. Every bit of it is delivered prepared, packaged and frozen. We are talking small snacks with ridiculous expiration dates.
Here's an idea....... order what you can sell.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/3/2020 5:29:12 PM (No. 306235)
When Mrs. Lakerman and I were wed, nearly 3 decades ago, we had a buffet meal for our reception, at a hotel. I asked the hotel manager to send the leftover food to the Salvation Army.
He refused to do that, explaining that the hotel would not risk being sued.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/3/2020 8:12:30 PM (No. 306364)
I thought old Kev was going to run for POTUS because his business was such a great success. Maybe next time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/4/2020 4:22:22 AM (No. 306654)
I worked the evening shift at Bojangles in the eighties when I was in college. At closing, we had to count the unsold food before throwing it in the trash. The managers always looked the other way when some of the bags of food didn't make it to the outside garbage disposal. My starving dorm mates were usually waiting in the halls for me to return from work. The managers would also make us package the leftovers in triple wrappings, just in case someone happened by during the night. We were told we had to trash the food because of local government rules. Almost any time you have silly rules at work that don't make sense and are a waste, they are usually government mandated.
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Typical libs; make the splashy announcement about serving the homeless, garner the good vibes, then don't follow up because it costs too much or is bothersome to implement. Meanwhile, speaking of corporate priorities, does Starbucks have approved sharps disposal boxes in their restrooms? Do they offer a needle exchange, free condoms and dental dams, an HIV awareness campaign?