Starbucks joins the growing movement "without straw"

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Following a growing consumer demand for environmentally friendly restaurants in the United Arab Emirates, a growing list of food joints banish plastic straws from their menus. announced this week that it will ban by 2020 all plastic straws in its 28,209 stores worldwide, including more than 100 outlets across the UAE on university campuses, shopping centers and independent stores

. Starbucks – the United States alone consumes about 500 million plastic straws per day – will be replaced by new recyclable plastic cups created by the Seattle coffee franchise.

It follows decisions by other UAE companies such as Freedom Pizza, Basta and Jumeirah Restaurant Group to stop issuing flaws to customers and responding to calls from the movements of base against plastic straws such as #stopsucking in the United Arab Emirates

The straws are also so thin and light that many do not even make them in waste deposits during transport. and are pushed by the wind into the oceans and waterways where birds and marine organisms ingest a variety of harmful plastics.

Estimates set the current 150 million tonnes of plastic pollution in the oceans and growing. The phasing out of single-use plastic straws is a shining example of the important role that companies can play in stemming the tide of ocean plastic, "said Nicholas Mallos, director of The Trash Free Seas Program. Ocean Conservancy, in a statement. "With eight million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean each year, we can not afford to leave the industry behind."

Kevin Johnson, President and CEO of Starbucks, said: "

Chris Milne, director of packaging supply at Starbucks, said the new lids used by Starbucks are eco-sustainable because they can be used sustainably. "By nature, straw is not recyclable and the lid is, so we think this decision is more sustainable and more socially responsible," said. "Starbucks is finally making a line in the sand and creating a mold for the other major brands to follow."

Erin Simon, Director of Research and Sustainable Development and Materials Science at the World Wildlife Fund of the United States , said that the decision to eliminate plastic straws is "avant-garde." think of rising to the challenge of wasting materials ".