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What if you get your coffee at the local Starbucks on your way to work The nationwide chain deserves credit for including 10 percent recycled content in its cups, and paperunlike polystyrenehas the advantage of being a renewable resource. But in other ways, They’re heavier, which means more energy used to create the cup and more waste once the cups have been crushed. based material, which can then be composteda positive step, although one that raises a question of where all that extra corn will come from.

Oriental Trading Hoping to win over customers who care about the environment, Starbucks, the Seattle coffee company, plans to announce today that it will start stocking its stores with cups made with 10 percent recycled material.

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Financial Forex Forex Software The company said it was the first time that a national food chain had incorporated recycled material into packaging that comes into direct contact with food or beverages.

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Trading Starbucks, which uses an estimated 1.5 billion cups annually, currently puts recycled paper into its cardboard cup sleeves, napkins and cardboard carriers. But attempts to address the cup problem have vexed the company for years. Starbucks plans to test the cups early in 2005 and to have them in all its stores by the end of the year.

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Trading Financial System Despite the small fraction of recycled content in the new cups, Starbucks said the move would have considerable environmental effect, saving approximately five million pounds of virgin tree fiber a year.

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Forex Financial Trading The "It's a helpful start, but 10 percent recycled content is minuscule," said Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Starbucks said it was using only 10 percent recycled material partly because the material costs more.

Fortune Make Option Trading The higher cost is one reason that other food companies have not switched to recycled cups.

Science Of Financial Market It was not immediately clear if Starbucks would bear the added recycling costs or pass them along to its customers.

Future Trading Although permission was not required, Starbucks and its pulp manufacturer, the Mississippi River Corporation, decided to seek Food and Drug Administration approval for the new cup material, which is made from paper that had previous consumer uses. In September, Mississippi River and Starbucks received approval under the agency's two-year-old food contact notification program.

Financial Sales Services "I think they wanted the peace of mind to know that someone else outside the company was assuring them of the safety of the material since it's coming into contact with food," said Dr. Paul Honigfort, a consumer safety officer in the F.D.A.'s food contact division. Tanya Richardson, process manager at Mississippi River's pulp plant in Natchez, Miss., estimates that had Starbucks not bothered to get F.D.A. approval, the cup development process would have taken only three months instead of the more than two years that was needed.

Commodity Trading The combination of government subsidies for logging and the additional procedures to turn what is essentially trash into usable paper products combine to make recycled paper more expensive than virgin paper. Adding to the cost is the need for coffee cups to be stronger to withstand the hot liquids.

Financial Services Trading James L. Donald, who has been designated to succeed Orin C. Smith as chief executive in March 2005, said, "We spent two and a half years working on this because it's part of a commitment we've always had to reduce our environmental footprint."

Online Forex Trading Some other food companies have made their own efforts. McDonald's uses recycled material in its napkins, tray liners, meal boxes and its carryout trays and bags. The company says it is the largest user of recycled paper in the food service industry, buying $100 million worth of material. Two years ago, Coca-Cola started using 10 percent recycled plastic for its bottles.

Financial Portfolio Trade Starbucks in recent years has become a target of a variety of advocacy groups who accuse the company of failing to live up to its goals of social responsibility. Craig Minola, an environmental scientist at the Organic Consumers Association, faulted Starbucks for plastering its stores with Fair Trade signs and brochures, but only offering one brand of Fair Trade coffee and rarely serving it to customers. The Fair Trade program seeks to ensure a higher crop price for growers in developing countries.

Sierra Trading Post "We've had people go into Starbucks stores and ask for Fair Trade coffee and the employees tell them they'd have to brew it," Mr. Minola said. "You can get it, but you have to be pretty persistent."

Trading Financial Future Starbucks replies that it has other programs that do things like promote conservation in coffee-growing countries. "We do more than just Fair Trade," said Ben Packard, Starbuck's director of environmental affairs.

Forex Trading Software By Melanie Warner
New York Times - 11/17/2004

Topic: Recycling

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