Starbucks is also transitioning to a strawless style for its iced lattes and iced caramel macchiatos. This is in order to reduce single-use plastics, and from April 16th, they will be gradually adopting FSC®-certified (*1) paper cups and strawless lids for all 23 iced beverage items.

*1: Starbucks has obtained the FSC® license number, FSC® N002500.


Since February 2021, Starbucks has been offering three items - iced coffee and two types of iced tea - in paper cups and straw-free lids at all of its stores in Japan (※2).


This time, by expanding the target products to a total of 23 items, which accounts for approximately 70% of the store's standard iced beverages, it is expected that this will result in a reduction of approximately 67 million straws (※3) and the same number of plastic cups (approximately 67 million cups / ※3) per year. *2: Excluding some small stores. *3: Calculated based on the projected annual number of applicable products using paper cups and strawless lids, based on products scheduled to be switched over from April 16th.





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