Bandos Maldives Going Green


Maldives
PUBLISHED April 24, 2019

As a part of their Earth Day celebrations on the 22nd of April, Bandos Maldives has announced that they will be discontinuing the use of single-use, plastic drinking straws, effective immediately. All drinks will be served without straws, and if guests were to request a straw, biodegradable straws will be used instead.

"… join with us in this worldwide movement and commit to skipping the straw which is only a small step that will go a long way in protecting our species," an announcement by the resort read.

"Thank you for your cooperation in this initiative to save our environment."

This change is one of the latest initiatives brought on by Bandos in order to reduce the impact they have on the environment.

In addition to this, Bandos has also introduced glass bottles to slowly phase out the usage of plastic water bottles. Hence, guests are now offered water in a reusable glass bottle which is filled with water produced form the islands own drinking water facility.

While plastic is one of the most defining inventions of our time, its negative environmental impact is undeniable. Globally, 300 million tons of plastic are produced on an annual basis and around 8.8 million tons are dumped into the oceans.

The throwaway nature of single-use, seemingly harmless plastic straws are actually one of the top two polluters of the ocean, and each straw takes up to 500 years to decompose. The total number of plastic straws used daily is so large that no global usage figure exists, but Americans alone use 500 million straws daily, according to the National Park Service.

 

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