Starbucks promotes Earth Day activities with in-store messages and volunteer opportunities to  educate partners (employees) and customers about the impacts their actions have on the environment. Starbucks is a proud sponsor of the Earth Day Network, a resource for people who want to participate locally and/or learn more about the impacts their decisions have on the environment. Visit Earth Day Network to find out how you can volunteer on Earth Day.
Grounds for Your Garden is a program that provides used coffee grounds at no charge to customers and local parks as a soil amendment.
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Starbucks stores around the world are finding innovative ways to reuse coffee grounds. In Japan, a team of Starbucks partners realized that coffee grounds could be used as an ingredient to make paper. A local printing company used this paper to print “Starbucks Press,” the official Starbucks Japan newsletter.
In Bahrain, the local Starbucks dries coffee grounds in the sun, packages them, and gives the grounds to customers as fertilizer for house plants.
And on Environmental Day in South Korea, our stores gave their customers flower pots that contained a bag of reused coffee grounds for fertilizer, topped with some planting seeds. (See photo above)
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