Did you ever wonder about the impact of a single-use plastic straw? With an average lifespan of just 20 minutes, these plastic straws manage to stick around in our ecosystem for centuries. These plastic pieces of trash often end up in oceans to get rid of the waste. So, besides just contaminating the oceans, they are often ingested by marine life, which leads to choking and even death. To be precise, we lose over a million marine lives, including thousands of turtles, every year to ocean plastic pollution. The point is, single-use plastics can be catastrophic for our planet. And, compostable PLA straws and cold cups offer just the right alternative to traditional disposables. Here's what you need to know about them and how smaller changes in your everyday routine can help save sea turtles. What's So Bad About Single-Use Plastics? To start with, single-use plastic products like plastic straws and disposable cups are made from non-renewable resources like petroleum. This particular resource requires a lot of money, energy, and additional resources to be extracted and carved into disposables. But, that's not it. Because they are meant for just single use, these disposables often make their way to landfills or oceans in huge amounts. To add on to it, these plastic disposables are often mistaken as food by marine life, which end up trying to ingest them. This leads to entanglement, choking, and even death. But, there's more. An average plastic straw takes about 500 years to break down in our ecosystem. But when it does, it leaves a long trail of microplastics and toxins behind. These plastic pieces and microplastics get mixed up with soil or the ocean waves and enter our food chain. An average human consumes a credit card worth of microplastics every week, if we're talking numbers. Compostable Products As A Sustainable Alternative On the contrary, compostable products, like compostable straw can help you make a difference. To start with, these disposable straw or cups are not made from plastic. In fact, they are made from plants and are also compostable. In fact, our entire range available on our website is certified for all compostability claims. So, while plastic takes a long time to break down and still manages to leave microplastics and toxins behind, our compostable products break down into compost, which is ultra rich in nutrients. This compost is often mixed with soil as manure. Compostable Products To Make The Switch To Below are some of our best-selling compostable products to make the switch to this World Turtle Day: Compostable PLA Straws Our compostable PLA straws are made from polylactic acid, which is a naturally occurring substance found in corn starch. In short, these straws are made from cornstarch. They are entirely plastic-free and are also certified compostable. But, beyond all sustainability claims, these straws are super convenient as well. For starters, they are non-toxic. They break down into compost. They also do not get saggy or mushy like other paper straws do. Compostable Cold Cups Like our compostable PLA straws, our PLA cups are also made from cornstarch. Plant-based and certified compostable, these cold cups are a great way to hold icy, cool beverages without feeling bad for the environment. Tree-Free Paper Napkins That's right. Our range of tree-free paper napkins is not made from trees. Instead, they are made from all plants. To be precise, this range is made from upcycled sugar cane bagasse and is completely plastic, tree, or toxin-free. Besides being all sustainable, these paper napkins are also highly absorbent and toxin-free. Wrapping It Up: The Power of Smaller Changes While that's a wrap-up, Turtle Day is just around the corner. And, making smaller changes in your lifestyle, like ditching single-use plastics and using PLA straws or cups instead, can help you make a bigger difference. It can help you save our ocean friends and keep our planet green and clean.