and Canada will be able to provide a reusable cup for their drink by the end of next year. Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. March 16, 202212:29 PM ET Deepa Shivaram Enlarge this image Customers at Starbucks stores in the U.S. I was told she loved it They were sturdy Not cheap looking. before I spent big bucks on the other Starbucks cups. If either of the pilot programs prove successful, you could soon see Starbucks or McDonalds integrate a resuable cup system on a much larger scale, massively reducing the billions of cups each company uses every year that potentially end up in a landfill. : Starbucks Reusable 3 Hard Plastic Venti 24 oz Frosted Ice Cold Drink Cup With Lid and Green Straw w/Stopper. Cafes in San Francisco using the Muuse cups have yet to be made public. To start CupClub will found at the Palo Alto Verve Coffee, Coupa Cafe, and the Stanford campus. “Consumers need a product that isn’t going to be so much of a step change,” states Safia Qureshi, creator of CupClub. Our Company Our Coffee Stories and News Starbucks Archive Investor. The chain’s traditional, disposable hot cups are made of both plastic and paper, so they’re. Starbucks has not entirely replaced their old cups with compostable ones, as they are still on trial. For example, Starbucks recently redesigned its cold-cup lids so they won’t require a straw. In Palo Alto, CupClub uses RFID technology and “bright-yellow drop-off points scattered throughout the city” as a means of making collection less burdensome on the consumer. Instead of putting a plastic lining in the cups like their old ones, Starbucks’ new trial cups are made with a BioPBS lining, a type of biodegradable plastic from Mitsubishi Chemical. In San Francisco, the QR code-based Muuse cups are scanned when customers pick up and drop off the cups at a participating cafe. The pilot program will be taking place at “independent coffee shops” in San Francisco and Palo Alto using a different type of “smart cup” in each city. Per the article, having the ability to track each cup would also potentially allow for the companies to “keep tabs on rates of reuse and attrition” and “identify areas where people are buying drinks but not returning cups, perhaps indicating a need for more collection sites nearby.”
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