Although we don’t grow bamboo in the Virgin Islands, we are sensitive to the use of plastic. We are in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean sea, and we see way too much plastic in the water. Even a single plastic straw is something we don’t want to see. So, we try to use as little plastic as possible.
A small but still important gesture is not using plastic straws. The U.S. uses more than 500 million plastic drinking straws per day. That’s enough plastic waste end to end around the world more than two times. Per day.
There are other alternatives besides bamboo, but we prefer bamboo over glass or steel straws. In part, because they feel nice on our lips and tongue. But, there are environmental issues as well.
Amazon’s Choice offers 10 natural, organic bamboo straws for $9.87 at the time of this post. Nothing quite like kicking back on a secluded Virgin beach sipping an island drink leaving nothing but footprints when the sun sets.