It is time for us to demand change …

We are often a selfish race. As a society, we sometimes care more about the touch of a paper straw on our lips than the long-term damage that the plastic equivalent will do within our oceans, or in the energy it took to make and distribute them.

We think little about the destruction of our rainforests for palm oil for the sake of a smooth lipstick. Why? Just because it is all hidden away from us. We…