Final straw shark tank

Clean, compact, and totally empowering: For anyone who wants to rid their lives—and the planet—of single-use plastic.

By now, we're all well aware of the negative impact of single-use plastics, which harm the environment, pollute the oceans, and sometimes injure wildlife. The prevalence of the movement to reduce plastic waste seemed to coincide perfectly with FinalStraw co-founder Emma Cohen becoming more environmentally conscious while attending college. As she said in FinalStraw's official mission statement, she couldn't go anywhere around campus without seeing solo cups, straws, and water bottles everywhere. After a fateful trip to Thailand in which she saw plastic straws all over the beaches, she decided to take the plastic straw pollution crisis into her own hands. Once she earned a degree in environmental management and sustainability from Harvard University, Cohen launched FinalStraw, a company that aimed to help eliminate single-use plastic straws by offering a compact and durable alternative. After successfully bringing the collapsible metal straws to market, Cohen and her business partner sought to secure additional funding from the panel of investors on the hit reality television series "Shark Tank. The panel of business investors mostly agreed that metal straws were the future, though some felt that there were glaring flaws in FinalStraw's business model.

Final straw shark tank

Emma Cohen and Miles Pepper pitch Final Straw, their collapsible, portable and reusable drinking straw, in episode Americans use over million straws every day and many of them end up in the ocean. Plastic straws are known to kill sea animals, including endangered sea turtles. Final Straw is a reusable, stainless steel straw with soft tips on each end. The straw folds up into several pieces. Each Final Straw comes with a mini squeegee to clean the insides. They list the product as shipping in November, The company is taking advantage of a national trend to ban plastic straws and other single use plastic items that pollute our oceans and can harm wildlife. Hardly a day goes by without a story of a dead marine animal dying due to ingesting plastics. Many cities, states, and even companies are eliminating plastic straws from the dining landscape. Environmentalists acknowledge that straws are the tip of the iceberg, but they hope the awareness bans create will lead to larger efforts and behavior change to help curb the over million metric tons of single use plastics dumped yearly world-wide. Cohen is no stranger to pollution reduction. In her four years at the Los Alamos National Labs, she was a pollution specialist. The Harvard grad has a degree in environmental management and made it her mission to reduce waste at the labs.

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FinalStraw aims to reduce plastic straw use by giving consumers an eco-friendly alternative. Plastic straws, FinalStraw says, are non-recyclable and don't decompose, polluting oceans. To illustrate their point, the founders had 5, plastic straws rain down from the "Shark Tank" ceiling to represent the number of straws used every second in the United States. FinalStraw launched in April on Kickstarter. Several sharks weren't sure the founders truly had a market yet. Lori Greiner agrees.

FinalStraw makes an innovative, and environmentally-friendly, reusable straw. Their company was inspired by a passion, and strong vision of protecting sea creatures, and limiting the use of traditional straws. Will the sharks want to invest? Find out in our FinalStraw update! In terms of a FinalStraw update, the company is still in business. However, the business partners eventually parted ways, and Miles rebranded the company to Final. It actually folds down to about the size of a car key, and also comes with a container that can hook on your keychain. At this point, the sharks want to know more about the margins. After passing out samples to each of the sharks, important negotiations and discussions began between Emma, Miles, and each of the five sharks.

Final straw shark tank

Miles Pepper, the founder of FinalStraw, came up with this million dollar idea while preparing for a half marathon. Pepper, who was a cinematographer in Sebastopol, California, had begun picking up discarded plastic straws across the streets of Los Angeles while practicing for the event. What had started as just a handful of straws had quickly ballooned over to straws per run. Now, Pepper finally understood how all the plastic trash ended up in the ocean to harm marine life. According to studies, it has been estimated that approximately 8. After going over this problem in his head for a couple of months, he started scouring the market for sustainable and easily portable straw options. Upon finding no such product out there, Pepper dedicated the next few weeks of his life to create his own.

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It was a fine straw. Collapsible and reusable, this ingenious metal straw is burdened with a glorious purpose: to end single-use plastic straws for good. Unable to add item to List. It is compact and the color is really great. With that, Kevin is out. Unfortunately lost it so came here to buy a replacement. For the past year or so, I have been inundated with complaints about a Shark Tank skin care scam. I forgot I even bought this for a while, so this review is pretty late. Get Drop Stop. Final Straw Facebook. Customers like the portability of the straw. Click to play video. To wash your FinalStraw, wash the outside with soap and water, then put a dab of soap on the brush and scrub.

By now, we're all well aware of the negative impact of single-use plastics, which harm the environment, pollute the oceans, and sometimes injure wildlife.

A portable, collapsible metal straw, so you can sip your cold brew and cocktails anywhere without having to worry about spilling ice all over yourself. Lori Greiner agrees. Additional Details. To illustrate the issue of single use straws, thousands of straws rain down on the pair from above. Verified Purchase. The pair gathered a team, designed Final Straw and raised money to get it off the ground. Before their Kickstarter was even completed, cheap Chinese knock offs were flooding the US market. Step Three Waste free Enjoy your bevvy with the warm fuzzy feeling that accompanies waste reduction. No refunds were issued and the company went out of business. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.