While working at Starbucks it was definitely a commonality to find trash everywhere. Customers would leave their cups on tables, on the condiment bar, in bathrooms etc. Things like straw wrappers would end up in the tip jars, on the beverage hand off plane, on the floor, in chairs, in the sugar containers, you name it. This image represents a common problem with trash in the store lobby. Starbucks has a program in which they scoop up old coffee grounds and give them away for free for people to use in their gardens. The bin shown represents the bin that we would put the coffee grounds in (in reused coffee bags of course). Well whether the bags of grounds were in there or not, customers would see a bin and just throw trash in it as if it were a trash can. Even with huge signs explaining it wasn't a trash can, people would still do it anyway. We even tried putting the bin next to an actual trash can....but still people thoughtlessly would discard whatever into our poor coffee grounds bin. Sigh.
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