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THIS SUCKS ENVIRONMENTAL &
SUSTAINABILITY

7.5 million

Estimated number of plastic straws
polluting US shorelines
(The Washington Post)

30,000
25 million Number of trees planted at

Number of views of a 2015 Elk Mountain, PA, since the 1980s
YouTube video of a turtle
whose head was impaled by
a plastic straw
(www.bloomberg.com)

35 billion
Number of plastic water bottles that 45
Americans throw away every year
Number of electric vehicle (EV) chargers
(Brita)
at Killington Resort and Pico Mountain, VT,
which makes it New England’s largest
500 to 1,000 years electric car charging hub

Amount of time it takes for plastic to degrade
(EcoWatch)

THIS DOESN’T SUCK

40% 47

Estimated reduction in customers’ straw Number of sustainability projects funded
usage at companies/restaurants that offer through NSAA Sustainable Slopes Grants
straws on demand, thereby diminishing the
increased cost of switching to paper straws
(aardvarkstraws.com)

134,000

The number of single-use plastic bottles, cups,
lids, straws, and cutlery that Tamarack Resort, Id.,
is on track to eliminate from the waste stream by $523,000
July 31 under its new Make Your Mark campaign, Amount awarded to resorts through NSAA
an initiative to do good, regardless of how small Sustainable Slopes Grants since 2009
the act may be.

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