Save the world with simple items costing only 5000 VND, do you believe?

With only a cheap price like a bunch of vegetables in the market, this item is being considered as one of the necessary changes to human life, if not a serious day of Earth's destruction.

Today, buying a cup of milk tea or coffee to study or work, while sitting and sipping and sucking each breath has become one of the most common habits in life. Most of us use paper / plastic cups and plastic straws for those things - but some know that the action is and will seriously destroy the environment, causing death for hundreds of marine creatures and destruction our own lives - even when we put them in the trash most consciously. Why is that?

Straws made of bamboo, new solutions to protect the environment.

The dark side of the destination journey for plastic waste

After putting it in the trash, the amount of plastic waste, such as the cup and straw, will be collected and taken to the dumping area for waste treatment. Here, organic waste will be carried away as raw material for bio-fertilizer production, while inorganic waste will be recycled (if eligible), burned or buried in the ground and biodegradable. In addition, the above methods of treating inorganic waste are only effective when properly invested, with the cooperation of both the community and qualified staff.

With the method of burying underground to follow nature, garbage such as plastic straws need at least 200 years to decompose themselves, and they still cannot completely disappear from the earth because of the chemical material that makes it no creator bestowed on any supernatural biodegradability. Based on a recent study by Freedonia Group, Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day, not to mention the rest of the world. More shocking, the total length of those 500 million straws can fit enough around 2.5 Earth circumference!

The female diver Kasey Turner went swimming at Manly Beach (Australia), found 319 straws in just 20 minutes.

But the dark numbers do not stop there: Around the beginning of 2018, plastic straws ranked 11th and accounted for 3% of the total amount of waste found in the sea (according to official data of TIDES - Public data collection system for ocean waste. Not only is the quality of life of people and animals on the land affected, but the direct consequences for living things in the ocean are even more painful and distressing, no need to wait long.

The most typical is a shocking video recorded by researcher Nathan J. Robinson while in an experiment in Costa Rica, although has appeared since 2015 but is still continuously shared on major fan pages of social networks, with a total of tens of millions of views. In it, the scene of Robinson doing his best to use a pliers to pull a straw caught in the nose of the sea turtle out, trying to not cause any pain to the animal that touched the heart of many people.

The most shuddering is the moment when the blood-sucking straw completely removed, up to 10cm long, stuck in the nasal cavity for the past five months, accompanied by the painful face of the poor turtle. What happens to this innocent turtle is the most definitive evidence for the actions of a large number of people who unconsciously litter the sea, or fail to comply with the garbage disposal / recycling process. discharged, especially plastic straws.

The solution is simple but practical, only 5,000 VND

Recognizing the enormous consequences that plastic straws cause to the environment, there are now many places selling bamboo straws. They are straws made of 100% bamboo / wood stems, which are very friendly to the environment, and especially the ability to quickly biodegrade when there is no need for further use or removal.

Bamboo is the fastest growing species of all plants in the world. Not only that, in the past, thanks to the incredible strength of bamboo, people used bamboo to build houses, as weapons to hunt wild animals very popular. Bamboo straws not only bring benefits to the environment but are also convenient to use and ensure human health, do not bring chemical impurities are prepared and processed before being circulated like plastic straws.

Usage is simple, just put the suction tube under the tap for a few seconds and then wash them with a palm with some soap.

Normally, when buying bamboo straws, buyers will be given a scouring fiber rod. Usage is simple, just put the suction tube under the tap for a few seconds and then wash them with a palm with some soap. If you want to make sure the straw is completely clean, you can boil the mixture of water and vinegar, soak the straw for a few minutes. More specifically, bamboo straws have many different sizes and sections, suitable for each type of drink and topping such as pearl milk tea, vitamins, coffee .

Only by a simple daily routine, we can avoid a myriad of dangers to myself, contributing to protecting the global environment while sipping a cup of coffee or having fun chatting with the association. close friends at the familiar milk tea shop.A single bamboo straw that costs only VND 5,000-10,000 will be difficult to change the world, but if that number is raised to hundreds of thousands or millions, even replace the presence of a straw plastic - by then, we can completely change the fate of the Earth in general and tens of thousands of other animals in particular are living together with humans.