Comments on: Starbucks Wastes 23.4 Million Liters of Water Daily

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:08:52 +0000

that’s not all, here in Colorado they put the blenders under the tap, turn the HOT water on full blast and just let it run and run and run and run. It has been going for ten minutes at times. I have joined the facebook page Starbucks Stop Wasting our Water and I would love to upload videos of this as well.

I have asked them at the district manager and down to stop but they could care less. I have officially stopped drinking their swill.

By: SBuxSux

SBuxSux — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:05 +0000

The coffee always has a burnt flavor.

But, the thing I hate the most is the whole fake size name thing.

In true Pacific Northwest, through the looking glass style, the small is “Tall”.

The medium is “Grande”, which confuses Hispanic Nannies all over the more upscale Seattle suburbs. Grande should, by any sense of reality, mean the biggest size.

“Venti” is Italian for twenty, because it’s a 20 ounce cup. The stupid, STUPID Northwest transplant Howard Shultz in all his hateful smug passive-agressive crap never stopped to realize that Italy was, is and always will be a metric country. You can’t get 20 ounces of anything in Italy.

Here’s something I like to do, which I humbly submit you all might fun to do on an otherwise dull day. I like to go to SBux and argue about the sizes for five to ten minutes in rush hour and then walk out without buying anything. I also have lately added the phrase “Stupid in THREE languages” which I picked up from a movie.

Try it! It’s some of the most fun that can be had for free and a big “stick it” to a truly hateful corporation.

By: Starbucks Never Turns Off the Faucet | EcoRenovator.org

Starbucks Never Turns Off the Faucet | EcoRenovator.org — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:30:56 +0000

[...] could do something like that, I’d guess it would be Starbucks. Do what, you say? Well, according to earthfirst, Starbucks has a practice of leaving a cold water tap on nonstop in all of its places of business [...]

By: Peter from Oz

Peter from Oz — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:22:54 +0000

Great going, $tarbucks.

I sure hope you weren’t pouring Sydney’s drinking water down the drain and out to sea when our main dam fell to about 35% of capacity during the worst of the drought in 2007, which has prompted construction of a desalination plant
.

Not sorry they are closing their branches here.. their coffee didn’t deserve the name and was overpriced to boot.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:13:08 +0000

The author of this post has obviously never worked in a coffee shop before. This is standard practice for coffee shops(yes, even your magical local coffee shop) as it is the most efficient way of keeping the spoon used to make beverages clean. The tap is about the size of a pinhole and the water coming out is about a trickle. Only when you include all 10,000 stores around the world do you get such a massive number. It is actually a very efficient method because it allows you to keep a liter of standing water that is clean in order to rinse the spoon. Any other method would be far more dangerous in terms of bacteria(especially because of the massive volume of milk used, it is difficult to keep bacteria from growing), and would more than likely waste more water because you would need a more powerful tap to rinse the spoon because the standing water well would not be sanitary enough to keep.

This “dipping well” is even required in most jurisdictions(here in the US) by local and state health code regulations.

By: FAeafga

FAeafga — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:58:52 +0000

Seattle’s Best which is owned by starbucks also does this

By: NSD

NSD — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:15:19 +0000

Yes, unfortunately we have Starbucks in Romania. Yuk.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:35:18 +0000

It is amazing how leaving a tap on can waste so much water. As a mom trying to go green, I have teach my children these simple facts. We took Sloan Barnett’s Test, the Body Burden Test, and it is wonderful to know how to make simple changes in our living space to live less toxic and help save the environment. Her book “Green Goes with Everything” has given me so many ideas. Maybe Starbucks would gain more business if they promoted green living and stopped wasting water.

http://www.greengoeswitheverything.com/