It is estimated that we are served over 500 million drinks with straws daily, meaning 500 million straws are throw away!
For this project I have collected straws from coffee shops Starbucks and Costa and turned them into products that these types of companies could potentially use in there shop to encourage not only recycling of this waste but upcycling, to create lighting, sugar pots, menu stands and even coasters.
Here are examples of lights that could be made.