Reusable straws - why are they becoming popular?

Juice, cocktail, drink, coffee - straws are added to most beverages in catering outlets. The same happens at meetings organized in the family circle. Straws bought in bulk quantities, wrapped in foil cost a little, after drinking a drink, just throw the straw and forget about the trouble.

Unfortunately, the troubles will start later - plastics degrade even several thousand years! Are you sure you want to leave such a legacy?

Plastic straws and the environment

A single small straw does not seem to be capable of any damage. However, several thousand, and even millions of straws that are used in the world are becoming a huge problem that may well turn into a crisis. It is already said that in a dozen or so years in the oceans the number of plastic straws will be greater than the number of fish living in them!

Straw? No thanks!

Bearing in mind all the facts, it's worth changing your habits. We do not have to use the straws we are offered in restaurants or similar establishment. However, if you cannot imagine ice juice without them, there is another solution - a reusable straw. There are many options here.

In brick and mortar shops or on the Internet, you can buy paper, metal, bamboo or even straw straws. You can treat them as a fashionable gadget, which may raise some questions. Who knows, maybe you will become a trendsetter among your friends and help to improve the quality of life on earth? A disposable straw is only useful for a few moments, and then it becomes a huge problem for the planet. Fortunately, an increasingly aware society begins to understand this.