Starbucks Swears Off Single-Use Plastic Straws for 2020 Deadline
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For Starbucks Corp., the year 2020 will be the final straw.
The company said Monday it plans to eliminate single-use plastic straws from its more than 28,000 coffeehouses globally by the end of the decade. Exchanging them for alternative-material ones and recyclable strawless lids will allow the coffee giant to remove more than 1 billion plastic straws from its locations per year, it said.