{"id":5112,"date":"2018-05-05T07:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2018-05-05T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T14:16:13","slug":"just-say-no-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/just-say-no-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Just say no, thank you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Did you know that 500 Million straws are used daily, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">just<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> in the United States alone!?! That number would fill over 125 school busses with straws EVERY SINGLE DAY. 500 MILLION straws a day. That\u2019s 175 billion a year. That\u2019s enough straws to wrap around the Earth\u2019s circumference 2.5 times a day. And those straws have to end up somewhere - landfills, our beautiful \u00a0oceans\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">So what can we do to help? <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">When going to restaurants and bars, simply request no straw with drink orders. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">There are some great reusable straw options to keep at home for kids, for reusable to-go cups, water bottles and to take along to restaurants. These straws come in stainless steel, glass, silicon, paper, bamboo, et and here is a company that is making edible straws out of seaweed! <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loliware.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">the Lolistraw by Loliware<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">. For more reusable straw options, check <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strawlessocean.org\/alternatives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">these<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> out. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Reach out to a restaurant or business in your community about adopting an offer first policy, asking the customer if they\u2019d like a straw at all, rather than automatically giving them. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Here is a table tent (created by an awesome 10 yr old who started his own <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ecocycle.org\/bestrawfree\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">BE Straw Free<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> campaign!) that you can print out and take to restaurants for your table: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ecocycle.org\/files\/pdfs\/table_tent.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">http:\/\/ecocycle.org\/files\/pdfs\/table_tent.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Help spread awareness by informing friends and family of just how harmful straws are to our planet. Share on social media: #stopsucking, #nostrawplease, #strawfree<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_5113\" style=\"width: 1162px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/just-say-no-thank-you\/greenpeace-blog\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5113\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5113\" src=\"http:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Turtle-1152x846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Turtle-1152x846.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Turtle-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Turtle-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-Turtle.jpg 2614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image from Greenpeace.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Making a difference starts with ourselves, making right actions, you know, being the change and all. So let\u2019s all take the pledge to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stopsucking.strawlessocean.org\/i\/k77x5s5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">#stopsucking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Resources: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelastplasticstraw.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">https:\/\/thelastplasticstraw.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strawlessocean.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">https:\/\/www.strawlessocean.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecocycle.org\/bestrawfree\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">http:\/\/ecocycle.org\/bestrawfree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/commercialservices\/greenline_straw_free.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/commercialservices\/greenline_straw_free.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Complied, contributed and written by Katie Elliott.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #003366;\">Katie is an artist with a lust for travel and a profound love of nature. Her ideas of true happiness consist of: a great book, a blank notebook and pen, the beach, oil paints, a glass of good wine, yoga, soul friends and lots of laughing. Not necessarily in that order. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #003366;\">Connect with her on Instagram at @katieelliott108 or @dakinikate.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 500 Million straws are used daily, just in the United States alone!?! That number would fill over 125 school busses with straws EVERY SINGLE DAY. 500 MILLION straws a day. That\u2019s 175 billion a year. That\u2019s enough straws to wrap around the Earth\u2019s circumference 2.5 times a day. And those straws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2030,2027,1075,2029,545,2002,565,2028,2025,2026,2021,2020,2024,2022,2023,814],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}