Today is National Skip the Straw Day

Order your next drink without a straw and talk to local businesses about why they should #breakfreefromplastic.

Order your next drink without a straw and talk with the shop
owner about why they should #breakfreefromplastic.

Today is National Skip the Straw Day. It always falls on the fourth Friday of February, and is a reminder of how important it is to move away from using single-use, disposable plastics in our everyday lives. 

The National Park Service estimates that Americans use 500 million straws daily, which means that if everyone observed Skip the Straw Day, that would be 500 million fewer straws getting tossed today. 

That is a lot of straws, roughly enough to fill 127 school buses daily and circle the Earth's circumference 2.5 times.

Read the Treehugger story by Katherine Martinko - “Today is National Skip the Straw Day.”