After gathering consumer feedback through the test run, paper straws will be introduced at all its stores in November, the company said. 

For the first two weeks starting from Monday, Starbucks Korea will provide green paper straws. White paper straws will be provided in the following two weeks. Both straws have received food safety approval from the United States and South Korea. 

Starbucks Korea currently provides five different types of straws depending on the beverage type. It will firstly provide paper straws for cold drinks before expanding this to other types of beverages. 

Plastic straws and stirrers will be removed from stores. Instead, it will offer wooden stirrers to replace the plastic ones, it added.

The company said it expects the measures to eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year from all of its stores here.

By Kim Da-sol (ddd@heraldcorp.com)