NO STRAW Saturday

Originally published Jan 11, 2014

Get your green on this new year - even if you start small. Starting this Saturday (Saturdays are one of the biggest nights of the week that people go out) when the waiter brings your drink politely refuse straw. Call it "No Straw Saturday". Or if you know it's a restaurant that gives outstraws tell the waitstaff before hand not to bring you one when she asks for your drink order. Yes I said straw. Tell her you're trying to live a less single-use and more plastic-free lifestyle.  There are 500 million of plastic straws manufactured each year. Have you seen any straw recycling centers? No. What do you think happens to them after the miniscule amount of time you spent sucking your beverage through them? They Go To The Landfill To Die A Slow Death. Not only are the effects of the straw devastating to the earth over time, so are the effects of the straw on your face over time. Sucking through a straw is like smoking a cigarette, have you ever noticed the lines above the lips of a cigarette smoker? Do you want to look like that? Of course not! Stop hurting the face of the earth by filling it with so many throwaway things and stop hurting your own face by not using a straw. It's the right thing to do - most of us only have one Earth and one face. Make the most of it.  

Reuse and save!

Then make every Saturday a "No Straw Saturday" to spread the word and work out from there.  If business owners asked first they'd be saving a penny a piece at least!

I'm not the only one to think of this, although I had the though on my own a nine year old beat me to organizing the word about it: Milo Cress If you do NEED a straw, get a reusable one or save and reuse the ones you get when you go out.  Weave yourself a nice placemat out of them. Seriously, they're made of polypropylene so they're like mini tubular CRESBI crates, why throw that kind of strength away?

Enjoy!