{"id":536,"date":"2017-09-16T14:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=536"},"modified":"2017-09-16T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T14:11:04","slug":"the-last-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2017\/09\/16\/the-last-straw\/","title":{"rendered":"The last straw!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know we\u2019ve had this conversation before but truthfully \u2013 plastics are taking over the world.\u00a0 Or rather, they are playing a big part in messing it up!<\/p>\n

Why is that?\u00a0 Petroleum-based plastics like PET do not decompose in the same way that organic material does. Stuff like wood, food scraps and grass gets transformed into useful compounds by bacteria \u2013 but this does not happen with plastic. Plastic never really goes away. After hundreds of years it might break down if it is exposed to sunlight \u2013 but even those tiny pieces are still floating around in the place. Of course, if it gets buried in a landfill \u2013 it never sees the sunlight and so it stays\u2026 and stays.<\/p>\n

One way that we can help \u2013 I know it seems a teensy way \u2013 but every little bit really does help, is to say \u201cNo Thank You\u201d<\/em><\/strong> to straws.<\/p>\n

Seriously! We don\u2019t need to use a straw to drink a cool drink. By the way \u2013 if the cool drink is in an aluminium can \u2013 that also takes 500 years to break down \u2013 so make sure you recycle those too please.<\/p>\n

The problem with straws is that they are light and even if they do get disposed in the proper way, they get picked up by the wind and carried off to places unknown. Often they land up in rivers, damns and the sea and they cause untold damage to birds and other marine life.<\/p>\n

Yes \u2013 I know it\u2019s very cool to pull the paper off the straw so it\u2019s concertinaed up, and then use the straw to drop a little bit of cool drink on the paper and watch it magically unfold all by itself. This drives my mum crazy if I do it when we are out, so she\u2019ll be glad to hear that I am giving up straws in the interests of helping to save the planet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of course, if you absolutely must have a straw in your drink \u2013 then take it home with you and in another blog I\u2019ll share some cool stuff to do with straws. Sciencey stuff!<\/p>\n

In the meantime \u2013 I\u2019m sharing my book \u2013 Sibo Tackles Trash – on the website<\/a>\u00a0 for everybody to read free for a few days.<\/p>\n

Every little bit really does help people \u2013 let\u2019s all try. Together we can make a BIG difference.<\/p>\n

Lots of love,<\/p>\n

Sibo<\/p>\n

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I know we\u2019ve had this conversation before but truthfully \u2013 plastics are taking over the world.\u00a0 Or rather, they are playing a big part in messing it up! Why is that?\u00a0 Petroleum-based plastics like PET do not decompose in the same way that organic material does. Stuff like wood, food scraps and grass gets transformed … Continue reading “The last straw!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,68,52],"tags":[57,29,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}