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    Starbucks Urged to Cut Ties With Hong Kong Chain That Still Serves Shark Fin

    Starbucks Urged to Cut Ties With Hong Kong Chain That Still Serves Shark Fin

    Starbucks is being pressured to cut ties with popular Hong Kong restaurant chain Maxim’s Caterers Limited over its offering of dishes with shark fin. Maxim’s said it phased out the controversial product in 2017 but undercover investigators with the wildlife conservation charity WildAid found that the eatery still offers shark fin on a secret “premium” […]

    UK’s Largest Coffee Chain Pledges to Recycle as Many Cups as It Sells

    UK’s Largest Coffee Chain Pledges to Recycle as Many Cups as It Sells

    Costa Coffee pledged on Wednesday to become the first coffee chain in the UK to recycle the same volume of takeaway cups they put onto the market. “Our new initiative will mean that for every Costa takeaway cup we sell, we will aim to ensure that one is recycled,” the British multinational coffeehouse touted. Costa […]

    Starbucks Makes Special Delivery to Ensure the Future of Coffee

    Starbucks Makes Special Delivery to Ensure the Future of Coffee

    By Raina Lang Editor’s note: Sept. 29 marks National Coffee Day in the U.S. Throughout September, Human Nature is publishing a series of reports on the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a coalition working to make coffee the world’s first sustainable agricultural product. This post is the second in the series. This story follows Conservation International’s (CI) […]

    365+ Businesses Call on Trump to Support Paris Climate Agreement

    365+ Businesses Call on Trump to Support Paris Climate Agreement

    More than 365 businesses and investors, from more than a dozen Fortune 500 firms to small, family-owned businesses across more than 35 states, sent a strong message today to President Barack Obama, President-elect Donald Trump and other elected U.S. and global leaders, reaffirming their support for the historic Paris climate agreement and the need to […]

    You Asked, Starbucks Listened: Almond Milk Coming to U.S. Stores Sept. 6

    You Asked, Starbucks Listened: Almond Milk Coming to U.S. Stores Sept. 6

    For all the Starbucks customers who have been asking for almond milk as a non-dairy option, your voice has been heard. Almond milk is coming to more than 4,600 U.S. Starbucks stores starting Sept. 6. Starbucks Almond milk will become Starbucks third non-dairy offering. Soy milk was introduced in 2004, followed by coconut milk in […]