Dunkin' Donuts should step up, just like Starbucks did, by banning plastic straws as well as banning additional plastic cups. Customers ask for a thermal cup to go over their iced coffee to keep it cool, but they're wasting so much plastic by giving out two cups at a time.
The scale of plastic pollution in the oceans is truly staggering. An estimated 8 to 11 million tons of plastic enters the oceans every year — the equivalent of emptying a garbage truck filled with plastic into the oceans every minute. Straws might seem like a trivial place to start — but the US alone consumes 500 million straws each day. Most of these straws end up in the world's oceans, where they clot shorelines and gather in thick gyres.
Resolutions are using modified lids so no straw is needed, or using paper or bamboo straws which are both recyclable.
Resolutions for secondary cups is to ban the use outright and only give one cup per item.
