The House of Angostura (you know us from our bitters and cocktails) is excited to announce its global initiative to end the use of plastic straws in all of its businesses. The Trinidadian company is looking forward to joining this global movement and do its part to reduce pollution. Plastic straws contribute to an excessive amount of global pollution, as seen in the following statistics from the Last Plastic Straw global initiative website:
The United States alone uses 500 million straws a day. This is enough straw waste to wrap the circumference of the earth 2.5 times.
Plastic straws continually make the top ten list of litter items found during International Coastal Cleanup Day.
Each year, 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from ingesting plastic.