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Stralusion

School

Coláiste Ióasef, Kilmallock

Design Description

We were watching James Kavanagh’s Snapchat story when we noticed he had posted about a campaign called \Refuse The Straw\”. It said that a single plastic drinking straw would take 200 years to break down into \”tiny toxic particles\” and that in the US and UK 550 million straws are tossed every day but not recycled. Instead, many end up in the ocean. We decided to make a dress out of straws to understand the importance of correctly recycling their waste, even little things like drinking straws. “