That's 46,400 school buses every year!Įco-Cycle who currently hosts and promotes the Be Straw Free campaign further calculated using Milo’s estimate that Americans use these disposable utensils at an average rate of 1.6 straws per person per day.
To understand just how many straws 500 million really is, Milo indicated this would fill over 125 school buses with straws every day. Milo reported through his initial research and data he collected from straw manufacturers that Americans use 500 million drinking straws every day. Milo Cress founded the Be Straw Free campaign at the age of nine.
