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Starbucks is working toward ditching the paper cup
Thoughts for the day
Your paper Starbucks cup may soon be a thing of the past — or at least cost more — as the company looks to cut waste.
Starbucks is looking at reusable cups or charging a fee for paper, according to a report in USA Today. Starbucks is also considering a “borrow-a-cup” plan where you leave a deposit and get it back when you return the cup — like an ALDI cart without the wobble. The company is testing the move in six markets.
Unlike the paper straws that have become fashionable, I never really had a problem with the paper cup. Usually, the feeling of wet cardboard makes me gag. I never understood how people could drink straight from the carton. But because the cups have plastic lids, they don’t give me the heebie-jeebies.
I doubt it will be a matter of B.Y.O.C.(?) It seems just the sort of thing that requires marketing official reusable cups for purchase at the store. Still, I like the idea of bringing my personal 30-ounce cup to get it filled with coffee, though maybe not at the ‘bucks, I was never really a fan.
The Six
No. 1
Read the full story from USA Today: Starbucks is going away from paper cups. Here's how your coffee order could change.
No. 2
While Russia and Ukraine seek compromise in continuing peace talks, President Volodymyr Zelensky virtually addressed Congress Wednesday, making a plea for a no-fly zone, or as an alternative, military aid. Meanwhile, Russia faces its first default on international debt since the Bolshevik revolution as sanctions take their toll.
No. 3
Who says the Senate doesn’t do anything? Yesterday it approved a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent. If it passes in the House and President Joe Biden signs it into law, we may never remember to change the batteries in our smoke detectors again… er … change our clocks again.
No. 4
Sarah Bloom Raskin, Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve's vice chairwoman of banking supervision, withdrew her nomination Tuesday. Monday, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, said he couldn’t support her due to her views on addressing climate change. Her nomination had been stuck in committee since Republicans who opposed her refused to attend a vote to advance her nomination to the full Senate.
No. 5
When New York City Mayor Eric Adams loosened some vaccine requirements this month, he did not change a private-sector mandate that requires people performing in-person work and interacting with the public to show proof of vaccination. The New York Times reports that according to the mayor’s office, that applies to Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, meaning unvaccinated Mets and Yankees can’t play in New York. Ironically, visiting players are exempted. The mayor’s office said it couldn’t promise the rule would change before the home openers.
No. 6
It’s official, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, partners for 20 seasons in the broadcast booth, are the new voices for Monday Night Football after signing multi-year deals with ESPN. No word on Dennis Miller.
Quotes of the Day
"Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of December 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you. Just remember it. Remember September 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories, into battlefields. When innocent people were attacked, attacked from air, just like nobody else expected it, you could not stop it. Our country experiences the same every day. Right now, at this moment, every night for three weeks now."
"Today it is not enough to be the leader of the nation. What it takes to be the leader of the world, being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace."
— Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, speaking to Congress from his office in Kyiv
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