Motivated to encourage local food & Beverages business to stop using plastic straw, Gumi Bamboo has started #bebassedotanplastik campaign. It is a project where 5% of every 1 purchasing from overseas customer made to Gumi Bamboo will be kept for supporting us to offer free bamboo straws to the local owned Coffee shop/Canteen/Warung in Lombok, Indonesia.
There are too many plastics in the ocean. It’s likely that about 10m tonnes of plastic currently ends up in the oceans each year. In 2010 scientists from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the University of Georgia in Athens estimated the figure as 8m tonnes, and forecast that to rise to 9.1m tonnes by 2015.
The same study, Published in the Journal of Science in 2015, surveyed 192 coastal countries contributing to ocean plastic waste, and found that Asian nations were 13 of the 20 biggest contributors.
A team of researchers in the United States and Australia led by Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, analyzed plastic waste levels in the world’s oceans. They found that China and Indonesia are the top sources of plastic bottles, bags and other rubbish clogging up global sea lanes.
Together, both nations account for more than a third of plastic detritus in global waters, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The original source data can be found here.
Gumi Bamboo is a Social Business empowering women group ex stone miners in Lombok, Indonesia.
