PLASTIC KILLS LIFE, IT’S IN OUR OCEANS AND OUR FOOD CHAIN

Plastic microparticles are found in the flesh of fish eaten by humans. It’s estimated that more than 90% of us have traces of it in our bodies, stored in our fatty tissues and even showing up in breast milk to be passed on to our children. Plastics pose risks to the brain, blood pressure, human behaviour, and foetal development. It has also been linked with an increased risk of cancer and heart defects.

REPLACE YOUR STRAW WITH AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVE - OR SAY NO TO PLASTIC STRAWS

Plastic doesn’t degrade, it doesn’t break down - it breaks up but it never disappears. Plastic straws are made from polypropylene, which is a byproduct of petroleum a fossil fuel. Try to incinerate plastic and toxic dioxins disperse into the air we breathe, landing on our farms and becoming bioaccumulated into animals and humans alike.

There are no special straw-recycling facilities, meaning your plastic straw can sit in landfill for potentially hundreds of years, if it doesn’t work its way into our oceans.

Once formed plastic is in the environment forever

you can choose to ignore the threat to our oceans, but can you ignore what plastics are doing to your body and your children