Coffee drinkers spill beans on splash sticks
By Carley Thornell
There’s something new brewing at Starbucks and it’s not the coffee. Call it what you will - plug, stopper, lid seal - a spiffy little item that the coffee-chain colossus has dubbed its “splash stick” rolled out last month with nary a splash.
It’s a green plastic swizzle stick that locks into the sip hole on the raised cup lids used for takeout coffee. At last, the costly, searing fluid is kept from spilling while caffeine addicts walk or drive.
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posted by Robert @ 5/26/2008
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2 Comments:
Just wait for Starbucks' encore: the venti hazmat cup. As a new revenue-generating idea from Howard Schultz, the company will now start disposing of trace amounts of hazardous waste embedded in every throw-away Starbucks cup.
Superfund sites have a new solution to their problems, and Starbucks can continue to profit from their innovations in disposable lifestyle technology. It's a match made in Hanford!
swag,
You should get a life. Coffee spills are an everyday problem causing far more chemicals to resolve than a single splash stick that you can use over and over again. You can also bet that as a environmentally responsible company they are working on cup and lid solutions as well. Of course the bloggers love your quick reaction - too bad it lacks facts.....
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