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Write a memo to your boss providing your evaluation and your opinions. For each disposal option, be sure to address all five evaluation topics mentioned below and provide support for your opinions. General Information With nearly 18,000 stores in 60 countries, Starbucks serves a lot of coffee and pastries each day, and it also generates a lot of waste, including day-old pastries and coffee grounds. Starbucks continually wrestles with how to best handle this food waste. A researcher in Hong Kong is developing a fungus that converts Starbucks food waste into useful chemicals through a process called bio-refining. Basically, the Starbucks food and coffee waste products are blended with a special type of fungus that breaks the foods complex carbohydrates down into simple sugars. These sugars then go into a fermenter, where they are exposed to bacteria that break the sugar down into succinic acid. Succinic acid is a colorless, odorless substance that is frequently used in the production of medicines, foods, bioplastics, and laundry detergents. Assuming that the bio-refining process turns out to be technologically feasible, Starbucks will have another option for its food waste products. Lets assume that Starbucks has the following disposal options for handling its day-old pastries: 1. Discard in trash. 2. Donate the day-old pastries to local homeless shelters and other charitable organizations. 3. Sell the day-old pastries in its retail stores for 50% off. 4. Process the day-old pastries into succinic acid and sell the succinic acid to manufacturers or labs. Starbucks has a goal of zero waste at its retail stores, so it is continually assessing its waste-disposal options. Coupled with its zero-waste goal, though, is its profit motive. Starbucks is a for-profit corporation and must balance its sustainability initiatives with the right economic choices for its shareholders. Your evaluation should address the following topics for each disposal option: a) What revenue (if any) would be generated by this option? b) What cost reductions could Starbucks realize from this option? c) What costs would Starbucks incur for this option? d) What qualitative factors would Starbucks need to consider before choosing this option? e) What are the advantages associated with this option? What are the disadvantages associated with this option?