Starbucks Announces First Asia Pacific Store Made From Recyclable Materials

Today Starbucks announced their first location in the Asia Pacific made from recycled shipping containers. That’s the trailer part on a long-haul truck rig for you Americans.

The drive-thru location in Hualien City, Taiwan, overlooks beautiful Hualien Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

But it’s not the first Starbucks store made from recyclable materials.

In June 2017, the company opened a store in Iceland made from popsicle sticks.

In late summer of 2015, Starbucks debuted a store in Auckland made from “Lord of the Rings” scripts.

In 2014, Johannesburg was named as the destination for a new store built from Elon Musk’s high school test papers.

In 2012, Starbucks opened a store in Austria constructed of the skis from each Olympic medal winner of the last 10 Olympiads.

In 2011, the chain cut the ribbon on a new store in Mexico City made from thousands of Jarritos soda bottles.

Future plans call for a new concept store in Washington, DC built from thousands of printed Donald Trump tweets, a Los Angeles Store made from Storm Daniels’s bras, and an Atlanta store made from gold teeth grills formerly owned by Lil Wayne.