PHOTOS: The Nation
What to do with all those used plastic ingesting straws. Here’s one native government’s attempt to re-use the plastic scourge of Thailand and put it to good use.
The Nakhon Chiang Mai Municipality says they’ve been successful in turning used ingesting straws into pillows. Untold might be distributed to the region’s bed-ridden sufferers and aged to advertise recycling, deal with local rubbish issues and provide a new pillow to those that would take pleasure in it.
The Municipality additionally revealed plans to make mattresses of the same material for distribution sooner or later.
Pisal Phanthuseni, the Director of the Health and Environment Division says the recycling of drinking straws to make hypo-allergenic pillows that relieve neck muscle pressure for some one hundred bed-ridden sufferers and elderly had been successful. They used about 132,000 straws donated by 50 coffee retailers, college canteens and restaurants to make sixty two washable pillows, 22 of which had already been handed out whereas the balance can be handed over on August 12.
The straws had been cleaned with disinfectants and sun-dried before being chopped into one centimetre long pieces to be stuff in the pillows. Each pillow requires 2,200 straws. Pisal says the challenge, which now had regular provides from numerous business operators, would proceed and in the near-future broaden to the making of mattresses using the same approach.
Well carried out to everybody involved. A few much less straws to clog up the waterways and find yourself on our beaches and some extra snug bed-ridden and aged patients – a double win!
SOURCE: The Nation