Ch. 3 - Ethics & Social Responsibility

For Coffee

Starbucks collaborate directly with coffee farmers. Starbucks made first farmer support center at Costa Rica in 2004. As helping coffee famers, Starbucks expacts to encourage responsible growing practices and improve the quality and size of coffee harvests.
Starbucks has plan to 2015 and has continued to expand the program. In addition, Starbucks shares coffee knowledge with farming communities through Starbucks office in Guatemala City and additional farmer support centers in Kigali, Rwanda, and Mbeya, Tanzania to improve the quality of coffee.

For Recycling

If you visit Starbucks near our school, 120 Church St, New York, NY. You can find recycling box which looks like this picture. this is called Front-of-Store Recycling. You can guess easily where it is located. It's located in front of store. As setting this recycling can, almost 94% hot cups would be able to recycle.




In addition, Starbucks has discount policy to use reusable personal tumbler. if customer used their own tembler, you can save 10cents for each cuffees. Nowadays, only 1.5% of customer used their tembler. Starbucks promoted using personal tembler, and made beautiful and fancy designed temblers

 

For Cummunity

In 2012, civic leaders and nonprofit organizations contributed more than 613,000 hours of service around the world. During April’s Global Month of Service, volunteers made a significant impact in more than 33 countries around the world.

Starbucks created the Youth Action program in 2008, and they set a goal of engaging 50,000 young people by 2015. These youth leaders in turn mobilized more than 1.8 million hours of community service in 2012 and created ripples of change in communities around the world. Starbucks helps many young people can build successful and socially responsible thinking, surpports nonprofit organizations, either.







by 2012 Global Responsibility Report: Year in Review, Starbucks Co.