and conserve about 2,800 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water," Starbucks said in a statement. "The new cups will keep more than 13.5 million pounds of plastic from landfills each year.

Fanta, Sprite and Coke are flowing unabated at Olympic venues, where staff have been seen emptying plastic bottles into reusable cups -- a practice some say runs counter to the Games' pledge to be ...