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Starbucks doing something right

josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
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I wouldn't normally choose to give them my custom, as our town centre has many good independent cafes to choose from, but I was accompanied by an aged parent who can't walk far, and Starbucks happened to be nearest.  Just inside the door was a basket on a stand, full of big sealed packages, with a sign: "Spent coffee grounds for your garden."  If one Starbucks is doing it, presumably others are.  Other cafes please copy, only with plastic-free packaging if possible.  But I'll carry on taking my own plastic box to a cafe nearer home.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Waitrose have been doing it for years too.
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I got all excited when I saw the title.  I thought they were all closing down. :D
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    But then you'd be releasing planet warming CO2 @pansyface!

    Very happy to say there is, so far, no Starbucks here nor Costa.   I expect I could ask for grounds at the café in our usual SM complex.  We put all our own coffee grounds in the compost.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    At least they are making some sort of effort, even if it can be dismissed as a PR exercise by the cynics. Yes, it's a drop in the ocean when you look at everything we have woken up to, but it's something. It's not going to change overnight.
    In the words of Joey " The Lips" Fagan in " The Commitments", "It's a start. I believe in starts". 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    pansyface said:
    😊

    I was in B&Q the other day and I saw “Coffee Logs” for sale. Didn’t stop to ask what or why but it seems you can maybe light a fire with them too.

    Here are your coffee logs: https://www.bio-bean.com/coffee-logs/

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness! 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Methane in coffee grounds??  Who knew?   Better smells from burning a log then.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    B&Q have a charity box with timber off cuts and damaged kitchen end panels that sort of thing give what you want the proceeds go to a homeless charity, I've had some useful bits and bats, I believe they also donate paint and other bits and pieces to charity's, keeps it out of landfill, well done B&Q.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited January 2020
    I would use coffee logs if the were cheaper than wood. Having forced out our local cafes, our Starbucks has closed down. A caused for some celebration, but it would be better if they had never arrived. We just need Costa and Tesco's cafe to close and we'll be well on the way.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fire said:
    our Starbucks has closed down. A caused for some celebration, but it would be better if they had never arrived.
    Quite. It's an unsustainable business model even with their attempts to make it better.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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