Greetings Partners and Customers. There has been a lot of discussion about our dress code—certainly on the partner site, but also on the customer site. We wanted to let you all know that this idea is officially “under review”. This includes a host of ideas on the partner site from posts about tattoos to “Casual Fridays”. Stay tuned for updates!

We’re very happy to point out that two of your most popular ideas have been put “Under Review” this week. Here they are: DARK ROAST, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY! Bold coffee lovers, we hear you. In just three short weeks, your idea has rocketed to the number two spot (remember that popularity is based on a combination of votes and time on the site—less time with more votes equals more popularity). Dkrst, your efforts to lobby the group have paid off. A Penny to Fight PKD This was one of the first ideas on the site to get real traffic and in more than six weeks, it’s held its place in the top five. So thanks to Sandra Andersen’s amazing generosity, a score of 26,860 … more »

This isn’t exactly a sleeper idea, I’ll admit, but it is an interesting idea and it hasn’t broken the top ten. It’s been a little bit of a tortoise. What do you think about it? Worth doing? Not so much? Would you buy one and use it? sell reusable sleeves

There’s been a lot of talk on the site about recycling and if you haven’t read yesterday’s post by Jim, give it a look—it’s filled with good info. Recycling is so important and one thing we’re working on is trying to reduce the number of things we need to recycle. So I thought you’d like to see these ideas that are now “Under Review” (along with all of their duplicates). Being an iced Americano girl, I’m particularly tickled about number 1… Grande Iced To Go Tumbler Venti Tumblers

I love this idea that was posted by Twyloo a couple of weeks ago: Re-invent British "afternoon tea" - Starbucks style . It’s got me dreaming of warm scones, strawberry jam and clotted cream. What do you think, tea drinkers?

Many of you have commented on the idea called “The Road Trip” and you’ve probably noticed that we’ve put it Under Review. I wanted to let you know that we actually have a similar feature on Starbucks.com. If you go to our Store Locator and click on the “Find Route” tab you can check it out. (You’ll have to use IE or Firefox. Sorry Safari users!) It is a handy tool for road tripping. Take a look and let us know what you think (add your comments to “The Road Trip” so we’ll be able to find them). And rest assured, we are looking into this idea.

Recycling. It’s the #1 topic of feedback we get from our customers and partners surrounding our environmental performance—from MyStarbucskIdea.com and through all of our other feedback channels. And it makes sense. We sell a lot of our products in disposable containers and everyone wants to do the right thing when they’re done, recycle the waste. While we’d like the solution to be as simple as putting recycling bins in all of our stores, the world of garbage and recycling is currently a complicated one. For private garbage collection and recycling, this is entirely controlled by your city or county governments, who either manage it directly or contract it out to private … more »