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American Food Hero 2019:Rebecca Zimmer
Who she is:Global Director of Environment, Starbucks
What she’s doing:Saving plastic straws from landfills
In the late 1990s, Rebecca Zimmer left a good corporate job at Starbucks to follow her passion for documentary photography. She spent five years in Africa, working mostly in villages that housed people with leprosy. What she brought back home with her, besides an impactful portfolio, was a new passion for conservation. In those villages, she came face to face with finite resources for the first time. “You start to understand how every drop of water is sacred,” she says. “When I returned to Starbucks in 2004, I was really focused on ways that sensitivity for the environment could play out at a global scale.”
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