Starbucks has found a more sustainable way around the plastic straw: the sippy lid.

Come summer, Starbucks baristas will become among the first in North America to snap-on newly designed lightweight, recyclable, strawless lids to cold drink orders.

Each sipper uses 9 percent less plastic than the conventional lid and straw combination you get with your Teavana Shaken Iced, Iced Matcha Green Tea or new Iced Caramel Cloud Macchiato beverages. Single-use straws will be available if specifically requested by customers under a law signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Starbucks new lid uses 9 percent less plastic than a traditional lid and straw combo you get with your iced drinks. (Photo by Connor Surdi/Starbucks)

Newly redesigned, lightweight, recyclable strawless lids will roll out this summer to Starbucks locations in Los Angeles. (Photo by Connor Surdi/Starbucks)

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But the coffee company with the mermaid logo plans to phase out plastic straws at its more than 30,000 stores worldwide by 2020, eliminating more than 1 billion straws a year – a goal announced last July.

Stores in other parts of the U.S. and Canada are expected to receive the new lids in the coming year. And this is just the beginning, with paper cups that can be recycled or composted in your community next on the horizon.