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Bee Sew Responsible's Bamboo Cotton buds are a FANTASTIC alternative to the plastic cotton buds you can commercially buy!

These are made from Bamboo and Cotton, therefore 100% compostable after use!! Perfect for the Zero Waste amateur or enthusiast.....they are in a Small Canvas bag for a truly Zero Waste Option.

"Plastic cotton buds are found on beaches and in waterways around the world. The high number found in the UK and especially Scotland is cause for concern.

Plastic cotton buds are among the thousands of sanitary products flushed down toilets everyday instead of being put in the bin.

Cotton buds largely go unnoticed because they don’t cause major blockages in the sewage systems and many pass through to end up on our beaches, where they are often hard to spot amongst the seaweed and other debris. However, scientists are becomingly increasingly concerned about the effects of all plastics in the marine environment.

Being made of plastic they will persist for hundreds of years, getting weathered and fragmenting into smaller particles but always present.

They can adsorb and concentrate toxins also present in seawater, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

They can be ingested by marine life, causing physical damage or starvation, and releasing dangerous chemicals either incorporated into the plastic itself or adsorbed from the environment.

Consumer and the waste water treatment companies can stop cotton buds reaching the marine environment at all. If cotton buds continue to get into marine litter, we need to address what happens to them once they are at sea.

If they are flushed then making them out of a fully biodegradable material such as paper may make them settle out of the sewage before even reaching the sea. Once in the marine environment they degrade quite quickly."

Source http://www.cottonbudproject.org.uk/ 2017

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