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The biggest companies in the world produce waste in numbers most people never see, often buried in annual sustainability reports that nobody outside the industry reads. A single retailer can move tens of thousands of tonnes of plastic packaging in a year, and the trend lines behind those figures rarely match the headlines.

The articles here pull the data behind familiar brands: how much waste they actually produce, how much they've cut, and what their sustainability claims look like once the numbers are on the page.

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How much waste does Starbucks produce? Statistics & Facts (2026)

Starbucks are estimated to produce around 1.1 million tonnes of waste in 2026, up from 920,000 tonnes in 2019, even though they pledged to halve it. That is their stores' waste, and does not count the billions of cups customers carry out.

Oskar Mortensen
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