Starbucks Ditched Straws In the Name of "Sustainability." The Opposite Happened.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
Do sustainability initiatives actually fix the problems they claim to solve? In Ep. 101, Isaac Willour from Bowyer Research sits down with Christian Britschgi of Reason Magazine to discuss how Starbucks' 2018 decision to nix plastic straws in the name of 'sustainability' ended up being far more complicated than anticipated, and what corporate activists often miss in their crusades against plastic use.
Link to Christian's original piece here: Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic
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