Umbrellas are a product I have learnt to call a waste of plastic. Walking the streets of New York on those lovely rainy days lately I came to realize trashcans were mostly filled with broken umbrellas!  I almost came to throw away my one-day-old umbrella the other day because of the effect of New York’s crazy wind on it.

There are three options we can choose from in order to be a more sustainable city this winter; forget umbrellas; enjoy the rain, find a very well made Umbrella that can actually last a full winter, or finally find an easier way to recycle Umbrellas. If special recycle bins for Umbrellas only were spread around the cities, Umbrellas thrown away would at least not be a complete waste of material!!