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Story: A fridge, toilet seats, and more than 63,000 pounds of trash.
That’s what a cleanup team recovered in a month’s long effort to chip away at the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive collection of marine debris plaguing the Pacific Ocean.
A half-mile-long trash-trapping system named “Jenny” was sent out in late July to collect waste, pulling out many items that came from humans like toothbrushes, VHS tapes, golf balls, shoes, and fishing gear.
Jenny made nine trash extractions over the 12-week cleanup phase, with one extraction netting nearly 20,000 pounds of debris by itself.
The mountain of recovered waste arrived in British Columbia, Canada, this month, with much of it set to be recycled.
At Pura Vida Bioplastics, our home compostable straw wrapping are not made from paper;
Let’s keep our trees planted and doing what they are supposed to do, making us clean fresh air!
What does 500 million straws look like?
500 million straws could fill over 127 school buses each day, or more than 46,400 school buses every year.
500 million straws per day is an average of 1.6 straws per person (in the US) per day. Based on this national average, each person in the US will use approximately 38,000 or more straws between the ages of 5 and 65. So the sooner we can begin to use fewer straws, the better – it is never too soon (or too late!) to start!
Each 40-ft.-long school bus has a cab capacity of about 35’x 6.5’x 7.5′, and a disposable straw is, on average, .75 cubic inches, so it would take more than 46,400 40-ft-long school buses to carry the straws we use in the US every year (over 127 school bus loads/day)!
It’s time to make a change. Switch to Pura Vida Bioplastic straws today.
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