Starbucks Converts to Recycled-Content Cup

Starbucks Environmental Leadership Drives Industry First With Use of the Only FDA Approved Recycled-Content Cup
Company Announces Plans to Convert Cup by End of 2005 in U.S. Company-Operated Retail Stores

SEATTLE, WA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/22/2004 -- E-Wire -- In an important step to further integrate leading environmental practices into its business, Starbucks Coffee Company announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Starbucks supply chain member, Mississippi River Corporation, the first-ever approval to use recycled content in food packaging, specifically Starbucks hot beverage cups. Following successful testing, Starbucks expects to convert its hot beverage cups to 10 percent recycled material, an industry first.

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