Malte Niebelschütz, founder and CEO of Shore Buddies, a progressive company that creates stuffed animals out of recycled water bottles, is teaming up with SDUSD to raise awareness about human impact for students at an early age. Malte visited the STEAM first grade training to share his company’s story and goals. Shore Buddies mission is simple: “save marine life and keep plastics out of the oceans.” They’re inspiring children to help with stories that highlight the amount of single-use plastic items such as plastic straws that people use once and then throw away. Shore Buddies invites students to ask for paper, bamboo, or steel straws instead of plastic and to swap their toothbrushes from plastic to an eco-friendly bamboo brush.
Shore Buddies has created five stuffed animals to help remind students of the dangers plastic can cause in our oceans. If you would like to purchase Shelly the Sea Turtle, Emma the Whale, or find out more about Shore Buddies’ mission and process visit https://shore-buddies.com/.
