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Cups Tossed In Recycling Bins At Massachusetts Starbucks Tracked To Incinerators, Alabama Landfill
WBZ glued Apple AirTags inside several Starbucks cups so we could track where they ended up.
December 4, 2024
BOSTON - For the last five weeks, WBZ has been searching for plastic. This is part of a national project from CBS, investigating the recycling habits of Starbucks and just how environmentally friendly they are.
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Each day, Starbucks sells 6 million cold cups of coffee. Over the course of a year, that's 2.2 billion! That's a whole lot of plastic.
In April 2024, Starbucks announced their "more sustainable" cold cups could keep more than 13 million pounds of plastic from landfills each year. While these cups may be designed to be recycled, CBS News found only one facility in the United States recycles these types of cups into new plastic items.
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An Apple AirTag is placed in a Starbucks cup to be tracked/CBS Boston
WBZ's Jacob Wycoff found bags filled with recyclables in a dumpster behind Starbucks/CBS Boston
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