{"id":613916,"date":"2019-12-09T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=613916"},"modified":"2020-06-21T10:39:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T09:39:32","slug":"the-other-straw-a-way-to-show-your-appreciation-to-mother-earth-this-christmas-www-theotherstraw-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/the-other-straw-a-way-to-show-your-appreciation-to-mother-earth-this-christmas-www-theotherstraw-com\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Other Straw’ a way to show your appreciation to Mother Earth this Christmas! www.theotherstraw.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘The Other Straw’ a way to show your appreciation to Mother Earth this Christmas!\u00a0<\/h3>\n

www.theotherstraw.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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theotherstraw is a social enterprise offering reusable, ethically-sourced bamboo straws. theotherstraw reusable straws are handmade from sustainably grown, organic bamboo and 50% of the profits go towards ocean cleanup projects.<\/p>\n

Co-founders of theotherstraw Jamie-Lee Kay and Lennart Meijer estimate that nearly 1 billion plastic straws are used around the globe, everyday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe founded theotherstraw because we were shocked by the amount of plastic waste on our beaches, parks and just about everywhere else \u2013 we knew we had to do something about it,\u201d Lennart said.<\/p>\n

Plastic straws can not be recycled and take hundreds or even thousands of years to break down. According to beach cleanup volunteers, they are the tenth most commonly-found item on our beaches.<\/p>\n

Show your appreciation to Mother Earth this Christmas by purchasing some bamboo straws<\/a><\/span><\/span> for a loved one. theotherstraw sends all their straws out plastic-free and using carbon neutral shipping. Purchase a pack of straws today; they come in sets of 2, 5 and 10. All sets come with a straw cleaning brush and straw bag. They are the perfect sustainable gift for the conscious sipper. Shop theotherstraw bamboo straws today.<\/p>\n

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‘The Other Straw’ a way to show your appreciation to Mother Earth this Christmas!\u00a0 www.theotherstraw.com FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM theotherstraw is a social enterprise offering reusable, ethically-sourced bamboo straws. theotherstraw reusable straws are handmade from sustainably grown, organic bamboo and 50% of the profits go towards ocean cleanup projects. Co-founders of theotherstraw Jamie-Lee Kay and Lennart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":613924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}