Urge Dunkin' Donuts to switch from using Styrofoam
I'm sure you've all heard the slogan, "America runs on Dunkin'." That might very well be true. The company's website boasts that today, Dunkin' Donuts is America's largest retailer of coffee-by-the-cup, serving nearly 1 billion cups of brewed coffee each year.
When people are in a rush, looking for that coffee fix, I bet they are not realizing how much Styrofoam is being used, and thrown away each year in the United States. Each year Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups! That is enough to circle the Earth 436 times.
Styrofoam products are hazardous not only to the environment, but also to your health! Styrofoam is not biodegradable and leaks toxins into underground water supplies beneath landfills. Some landfills incinerate their trash, which in turn produces millions of tons of polystyrene ending up as toxic airborne ash. Even though Styrofoam cups are labeled with a # 6, it is not accepted in most curbside recycling programs. If a company is able to recycle it, it is only done in small quantities due to the high costs. When stored or heated (like your piping hot cup of Dunkin' Donuts joe) packaging such as Styrofoam may leach the potential carcinogen styrene into the food or drinks that container is holding.
If we could convince Dunkin%u2019 Donuts to switch to paper products like their competitors Wawa and Starbucks, that would be a great first step. It would be even better if they could turn it up another notch and start using post-consumer recycled paper, bamboo, or corn plastics all of which are easily renewable resources that can either be recycled or would biodegrade. Unless people start speaking up, they won%u2019t be swayed to change at all. Think about what an easy way this would be to reduce 1 billion Styrofoam cups a year!
They can use paper cups for lattes, why not for the rest of the billion cups of coffee that Dunkin Donuts sells each year? Speak out! Tell Dunkin Donuts that you want paper cups across the board! They won't do anything without your input!
Please sign this petition (and tell your friends and family about it) urging Dunkin%u2019 Donuts to switch away from using Styrofoam cups!
I'm sure you've all heard the slogan, "America runs on Dunkin'." That might very well be true. The company's website boasts that today, Dunkin' Donuts is America's largest retailer of coffee-by-the-cup, serving nearly 1 billion cups of brewed coffee each year.
When people are in a rush, looking for that coffee fix, I bet they are not realizing how much Styrofoam is being used, and thrown away each year in the United States. Each year Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam cups! That is enough to circle the Earth 436 times.
Styrofoam products are hazardous not only to the environment, but also to your health! Styrofoam is not biodegradable and leaks toxins into underground water supplies beneath landfills. Some landfills incinerate their trash, which in turn produces millions of tons of polystyrene ending up as toxic airborne ash. Even though Styrofoam cups are labeled with a # 6, it is not accepted in most curbside recycling programs. If a company is able to recycle it, it is only done in small quantities due to the high costs. When stored or heated (like your piping hot cup of Dunkin' Donuts joe) packaging such as Styrofoam may leach the potential carcinogen styrene into the food or drinks that container is holding.
If we could convince Dunkin%u2019 Donuts to switch to paper products like their competitors Wawa and Starbucks, that would be a great first step. It would be even better if they could turn it up another notch and start using post-consumer recycled paper, bamboo, or corn plastics all of which are easily renewable resources that can either be recycled or would biodegrade. Unless people start speaking up, they won%u2019t be swayed to change at all. Think about what an easy way this would be to reduce 1 billion Styrofoam cups a year!
They can use paper cups for lattes, why not for the rest of the billion cups of coffee that Dunkin Donuts sells each year? Speak out! Tell Dunkin Donuts that you want paper cups across the board! They won't do anything without your input!
Please sign this petition (and tell your friends and family about it) urging Dunkin%u2019 Donuts to switch away from using Styrofoam cups!
There is no reason any manufacturer, QSR or full-service restaurant should still be packaging in styrofoam. Let's put an end to this era.
I try to bring my own mug in, but I sometimes don't go to DnD because of the styrofoam!!! USE PAPER!!! :) Please? ~Kerry
Do the right thing!
Please switch to paper!!!!
I personally thing it's unfathomable that in this day and age that a company would continue to use styrofoam cups that are non-recyclable/non-biodegradable. SWITCH TO PAPER!! I refuse to go to Dunkin Donuts and opt for Starbucks because at least their materials are biodegradable. And it's absolutely MADDENING that you send your patrons out the door with plastic cups inside of styrofoam cups. Talk about irresponsible!
Although Dunkin's Styrofoam cups are labeled with the "6" for recycling, many recycling centers do not receycle styrofoam. Dunkin needs to get with the times and make the switch to paper products. McDonald's did years ago and they're still doing good! Get with it Dunkin!
please stop the madness! styrofoam is so late 20th century. what better PR move could dunkin make than going green? oh, please make this important overture to the green conscious consumer! we'll happily come over if you demonstrate a commitment to the future. thank you joel perez
Dear DD: Please, please consider using all paper cups! We only buy small coffees for this reason or go to other brands. Up your customer base, c'mon!
I DD - please make this a reality so I won't have to stop going to there stores.
Hi, I have recently become aware of the adverse affects of drinking hot liquids, as in coffee, from foam/styrene cups. I LOVE Dunkin Donuts coffee and am always served it in a foam cup, but the thought of the styrene leeching into the coffee and possibly contributing to hormone/cancer issues is rather disturbing. I see on the D&D website that they claim foam insulates better than paper and is fine for the environment, but the fact that the foam cups are a health issue greatly concerns me. I would hope that D&D is more concerned w/ the health of its loyal patrons than w/ the environment. I highly recommend switching to paper cups. I do believe that as consumers become more educated on the effects of these cups on their own health, they will find other alternatives – as in other places to buy their daily coffee.
Please stop using styrofoam. I love your coffee, but this is definitely a sore point. I can't support you if you don't support me and all the other people in the earth.
I love Dunkin Donuts but I only buy a small because it is the only size that does not come in a Styrofoam cup. I would ALWAYS buy a medium if it came in a paper cup.
As someone born and raised on Dunkin Donuts I have quite a loyalty to both the coffee and the donuts. However, I have recently stopped buying Dunkin Donuts coffee because it is served in a styrofoam cup. Of course, I could ask for the paper cup that lattes are served in. However, I do not want to support a company that continues to use sytrofoam when a safe, easily recycled paper cup is available in their own stores. Please get rid of the sytrofoam cups. I miss those vanilla cream donuts!
Better yet! Offer a discount for refills on travel mugs people already own!
We no longer want the unnecessary impacts on our environment and our health. There are many alternatives that can be used. There is no excuse for your ignorance!
Paper is a fine alternative. While technically speaking styrofoam may be recyclable, in reality it doesn't much get recycled, which means it's probably destined to be with us as-is forever. Yikes.
I have been boycotting DD's coffee and other products since this past summer when I started buying iced coffee daily from Dunkin Donuts. Styrofoam with an iced coffee you ask? Yes its true. I noticed at various DD's that often I would be served an iced coffee in a plastic cup doubled up with a large styrofoam cup. The only answer I could come up with as to why this would be done was that maybe there was some spillage down the side of the cup and instead of wiping the outside of the cup off they added an extra Styrofoam shield. Is this a regular practice of DD's? I hope not. I quit going there for iced coffee and paid more at starbucks and local businesses. I noticed they still use styrofoam to hold their hot beverages which is just unacceptable. Change your use of Styrofoam today DD's! You can be sure I will not buy another cup of coffee or anything else for that matter in your wasteful chain.
I'm not buying anymore coffee from you until you stop using Styrofoam and you put recycling bins in your stores.
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Come on DD! McDonald's got with the program about 20 years ago. Does anyone other than you still use the stuff??
I refuse to purchase coffee anywhere that styrofoam is used - perhaps if everyone did the same, they wouldn't have a choice but to switch!
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7:20 am PST, Jan 10,
Anna Morgaine Dayton, Oklahoma
It takes 10 times the amount of water to make a Styrofoam cup as it does to wash a ceramic one. Styrofoam doesn’t breakdown and it releases chemicals when it gets wet that contaminates food and water that it touches. Styrofoam is made from a petrochemical. The ingredients are highly toxic and can only be degraded by noxious bacteria that are laboratory grown. Disposal of Styrofoam products results in the overfilling of landfills with bulky, non-degrading plastics. Styrofoam contains chemicals that over time and continuous exposure can build up in the body and cause many health issues including cancer. One U.S. EPA study of human fat biopsies found styrene residues in every single sample. Please offer a reusable(plastic/ceramic) and recyclable(paper) option. |
please switch to recyclable or biodegradable cups and , stirrers, spoons - and advertise that you are going green! thanks
Why would Dunkin' Donuts continue to use expensive, unsustainable and chemically unhealthy styrofoam to make a cup, when paper is a biodegradable and recyclable option? Better yet, just use a travel mug!! They keep your drink hotter for longer anyway!
damn right
It's 2009. How can DD still be using styrofoam? Seriously?
I've been enjoying Dunkin' Donuts coffee since I was 16, and to be perfectly honest that coffee never lasted long enough for the styrofoam cup to make a difference in temperature. I already enjoy Dunkin' Donut's small coffees in a paper cup, why not a medium and a large?
