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Alex Bruce
  • Nov 21
  • 1 min

Turtle Straws magic list.

I haven't spun a good yarn in some time so here are a few original tips to a more sustainable lifestyle and some general life hacks. 1. Leave your bag for life on your door handle. Makes taking it to the shops more likely. 2. Just because "Sustainability" is written on something don't take that as fact. Sustainability is a marketing buzzword like "Healthy" or "Gourmet". How often do we see these words written on things that clearly aren't heathy or gourmet. 3. Read let my peo
Alex Bruce
  • Oct 24
  • 2 min

European Bartending School a Case Study

The European Bartending School (EBS) is the worlds leading bartending school, training the bartenders of the future. With over 50,000 graduates of their 4 week training course giving students the tools to be able to work in hospitality anywhere in the world. We wanted to students, who are going to be the Bar Managers, Owners, Purchasers of the future, to not only learn about delicious cocktails and drinks, but to give them ideas about sustainable effective straws, that they c
Alex Bruce
  • Oct 10
  • 3 min

Sri Lanka and Sustainable Sitting.

So following the passport debacle of last week, I made it to Sri Lanka, if you want to hear about it head here So first things first Sri Lanka is the most beautiful place I have ever been. I am here to have a few meetings with Hotels out here and gauge the knowledge and understanding of the plastic problem across the board. Now the hotels side of thing is boring and you don't want to hear about that. The plastic vs sustainability vs carbon footprint, of the Sri Lankan people
Alex Bruce
  • Sep 21
  • 2 min

Straw Lanka, Sustainable Passports and Striking for Climate.

It great to see lots of people coming together yesterday to push home the importance of climate reform to world governments. I wasn't there though, why weren't you there you hypocritical Ba**ard! Turtle Straws works directly in helping the the planet having a day off to shout and scream would have been great and to join people making there voices heard would have been great but thats not me. I believe that what we are actually doing at Turtle Straw and actually cracking on wi
Alex Bruce
  • Aug 28
  • 3 min

Victorious in defeat, Knowledge from rejection.

I haven’t written one of these in a while. But something grabbed my attention over the bank holiday weekend. So Victorious Festival the in their own words “The Biggest festival in the South”. They did something mental. I have tried to reach them for comment on it so far no success. So full disclosure I wanted to supply Victorious Festival with straws, they politely declined and that was the end of it, they don’t use straws in their bars, an excellent and cheap way to reduce s
Alex Bruce
  • Jul 22
  • 2 min

Keep it simple, Sunshine!

I was listening to a Podcast (The Tim Ferriss Show - Kevin Systrom) where one of the co-founders of Instagram was talking about how they got Insta started and he kept saying 'Do the simple things first.' And it made me think of a conversation I have quite frequently, I shall provide some back story. So currently I live in Vassiliki, Greece, I decided for the summer I would run Turtle Straws from here, my office rent is far cheaper than the UK, a cold beer on the beach in the
Alex Bruce
  • Jul 17
  • 2 min

Excuse me, I meme this is a bit silly!

I saw this this meme, and I have seen similar messages popping up in various dark corners of the plastic free movement. Which should actually be called 'plastic reduction movement.' (Mother Theresa would struggle to go plastic free in our world currently) So before we dive in I'll let you in on a secret, I sell straws (if you hadn't guessed). So at this point I may seem slightly biased, but please hear me out. Right so now the cats out of the bag or the tunas out of the tin,
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Alex Bruce
  • Jul 5
  • 3 min

Who is responsible for the effective disposal of Bio plastic products.

I was discussing alternatives to plastic the other day and often 'plant based' 'corn starch' 'cellulose' are mentioned. The material Polylactic Acid (PLA) that comes from corn starch has really taken off in the last year as people have been trying to reduce the amount of plastic that they consume. Who has been into a bar to be given a straw that looks and feels like a plastic straw? Have you had that moment where you pick up the straw and the person in the bar or restaurant r
Alex Bruce
  • Jun 26
  • 2 min

Suncream, Sweatflop and Straws

So I'm currently running Turtle Straws from Greece. Why Greece? It just so happens it's where most of my clients are. It's also much cheaper for office rent than it is in the UK. So you'll imagine my horror when at 27, I went to buy suncream for the first time ever, €9.99 never even thought about it before and thats good value suncream, SPF 50, no messing. "You're 27, how have you never bought your own suncream before?" Previously when I worked overseas, by some form of magi
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Alex Bruce
  • Jun 9
  • 1 min

Why Turtle Straws are the best for customers.

You have had a busy week, its Friday afternoon, you are thirsty, its warm outside the work day is nearly over. On your mind there is one thing, Mojito, the delicious rum based cocktail. That moment arrives and your sitting on a sunny terrace the Mojito you have just ordered and spent £8.50 arrives, you take your first sip. The flavour of moist paper, not Mojito fills your mouth, you persevere through your drink, trying to think positively about the environmental benefits of p
Alex Bruce
  • May 17
  • 2 min

The Neilson Case Study

Neilson are UK leaders in activity holidays, with a Mountain Collection of 11 Ski Hotels across The Alps and a Beach Club program that operates across 12 resorts and 4 countries. In September last year Neilson decided to make the switch to Turtle Straws. By December Turtle Straws had been delivered across their winter properties, and by May 2019 Turtle Straws were delivered across the whole program. Neilson snapped their fingers, acknowledged the final ‘plastic’ straw and mad
Alex Bruce
  • May 5
  • 1 min

Mcdonalds, Drinking Straws. Alternatives to plastic, alternatives to paper.

In the last year, the awareness for plastic pollution has skyrocketed. Straws are the easiest thing to change. Paper Straws have been adopted as the fix for plastic on what I call the frontline of the problem. But now paper is getting a pretty savage backlash especially from customers from McDonald's. What people don't know about is the other options. In this video I break down the positives and negatives of the various different types of straws we have seen appear the last y
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