@BambuuBrush

Tommie and Rebecca, founders of @BambuuBrush, met in Sydney when they were both working and traveling the world. During their travels, they started to see first hand the increasing damage plastic pollution was having not only on our environment but to ourselves as humans. They noticed the difference in the quality of the world’s beaches and the steep increase in the amount of plastic pollution ending up on coastlines, and in general in our environment. So the travel couple decided to refocus their energy towards making positive impacts to the planet and using their platform on social media to spread awareness.

Firstly, they recorded plastic pollution they encountered in Asia, but when visiting France, they realized it was not just an Asian problem, but a global problem and at that moment they knew they needed to step up their game and use their platform on social media not only to raise awareness but to educate and inspire people and to look into products that can help people make simple changes away from plastic. 

After doing extensive research on plastic pollution they found these facts to be quite jaw dropping:

- Studies show that by 2050 there will be more plastic pieces in the ocean than fish and 12 billion tonnes of plastic waste in landfills across the globe that will not biodegrade.

- Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans.

- Approximately 5.000 items of marine plastic pollution is found per mile of beach in the UK and that number is growing.

- 8 million tonnes of plastics enter our ocean every year 

- Every minute around the world 1 million plastic bottles are sold

- There are a variety of studies showing a range of quantities from 7,000 to 11,000 to 30,000 pieces of plastic that we consume and ingest each year

- With it being clear that plastics are now fully engulfed in our food chain, there have been studies that have shown plastic ingestion and links to the causes of cardiovascular diseases, cancers and even genome adaptations.

Once looking into more specifics facts about major polluters of plastic in our oceans and a product in which is a simple change in a household, it was clear that a sustainable toothbrush was the perfect product. There were 3 facts that really drove home how bad plastic toothbrushes are for our environment:

- There are 3.6billion plastic toothbrushes sold around the world each year 

- 4.2billion people are using plastic toothbrushes every morning and evening across the world.

- A group of environmentalists and scientists had witnessed an albatross regurgitating a plastic toothbrush to feed to their chicks in Hawaii, so the experience we had in the Philippines was not unique.

Tommie and Rebecca knew they wanted to do something, but had no idea how to set up a business. However, their passion drove them to work hard to launch the business. Their toothbrush needed to be sold on a big scale to make real positive impacts to our planet so they set the crazy goal of #1millionby2020. #1millionby2020 was to educate and inspire 1 million people to swap away from their "normal" plastic toothbrushes to their bamboo toothbrushes before the end of the next decade so essentially within their first year of trading they wanted to sell 1 million bamboo toothbrushes. The first batch of @BambuuBrushes was delivered in the first week of January 2019 and so far they have sold 1.500.000 tooth brushes.

Tommie and Rebecca are firm believers that we have a chance to make a significant impact on plastic production if we work together. If we can educate, inspire and empower someone to make one simple change away from a plastic toothbrush to a @BambuuBrush and start and end their day in a sustainable way, who knows the next environmentally friendly decision that person will make next. Maybe that person will make the swap to a reusable water bottle, or a reusable coffee cup, begin to cycle to work, bring their own tupperware containers for lunch or then decide to eat less meat. Each of these add up on a global scale and by changing a small percentage of our population’s habits and encouraging people to make a small change could, in turn, have a much bigger impact on our future planet. Just remember… One Simple Change, Multiplied by millions, Will change the world.

Based: Hertfordshire, UK.

Ships to: Worldwide - Outside the UK we charge delivery + Co2 offset.

Products: Bamboo Toothbrush, The Water Bottle, The Coffee Mug, The Lunch Box, The Bamboo Cotton Buds, The Bamboo Cutlery, The Reusable Straws (Stainless Steel + Bamboo), and The Tote bag.

Mission: To educate, inspire, empower through purposeful products that create purposeful impacts and give back to both our planet and our people.

Vision: 1. To become a well-known brand that inspires people we all hold the power to make positive impacts on our planet and on others. 2. To eradicate low-grade, single-use plastics in the mainstream culture where possible 3. To set up simple, sustainable recycling centers in the developing world alongside our Plastic Brick Making Machine and localized incentives to provide the opportunity for local to generate extra income to clean up their community and focus on environmental and humanitarian issues.

URL: https://bambuubrush.com