Starbucks And Howard Schultz, Plastics, China, And The Pacific

     The disaster that is befalling the oceans from the never before experienced millions of pounds dumped into it daily of plastics and other oil based non biodegradable contaminants is not the fault of any one company or country. Economic growth, encouraged all over the world, has long ago outpaced the capacity and ability to properly collect and dispose of the waste products from this growth. Starbucks is just one of many corporations that have grown fat and rich, never having to concern itself with the true cost of where all their non biodegradable products end up. If only Starbucks and its chairman put front and center the environment and oceans. Before Starbucks, when coffee shops were mom and pop operations, where coffee was served in dishes and cups that were washed and reused, the environmental impact was small. Whatever it is that propels people to want uniformity and large company domination seems to completely disregard the price that gets paid for so called efficiency. Garbage has to go somewhere. Much of it ends up in the oceans. Now that Starbucks is aggressively moving into China - where plastic and other oil based waste pours into the Pacific Ocean - will Starbucks and its soon to retire multi billionaire CEO realize that one reason their corporation (like other food corporations) is so profitable is because they do not incur the true cost of where their non biodegradable waste ends up?  Howard Schultz asserts the company has used its scale for social good. No company, including one that prides itself on being progressive, should ever leave the oceans behind in the pursuit of profit.