Joining the global campaign to get rid of single use plastic straws, Tsogo Sun will no longer be serving straws at any of its over 100 hotels and 13 entertainment destinations around SA. Plastic straws are one of the many single-use plastics that end up in our oceans and waterways, causing damage to our environment. According to Greenpeace Africa, “Up to 12 million metric tonnes of plastic enter our seas worldwide every year. The sea is choking.”
Comments Ravi Nadasen, COO of Tsogo Sun Hotels, “Although no confirmed worldwide figure is available, we do know that America uses 500-million plastic straws daily; this is enough straws to wrap around the earth’s circumference a staggering 2.5 times a day. So when you consider that one plastic straw takes 500 years to decompose, if we continue to use straws as we do, by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.”
“Straws are an item of convenience for most us, and we hope that, by not providing straws with drinks in our hotels, restaurants, casinos and entertainment destinations, our guests will be inspired to stop using straws altogether. We believe that, by changing our minds today, we can change hearts tomorrow.”
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