Depends where you are. It says compostable or recyclable as the only options near me, but a google image search for "starbucks trash can" will show a lot of variation.
replyMy gut feeling is this should be illegal. It's something like false advertising.
replyIt should also be illegal when municipalities do it.
replyJust because the city offers a recycling pickup, doesn't mean most of it actually gets recycled.
I'm a recycling critic, but no, it shouldn't -- because while the market for recycling feed fluctuates, consumer habits take decades to change. If we come up for an excellent recycling solution for plastics in the next 20 years, but we have to re-build municipal recycling programs from scratch, it'll be 80 years before it's going at full steam.
replyAlso some material like aluminum are very valuable to recycle even if we're throwing plastic in the trash.
It is questionable, I assume they are using standard corporate products and our local rural-ish area does not have very good options.
replyMost recycling in retail contexts is pure theater either way, so why expend the effort to actually separate streams that will inevitable be combined later.
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