As a person who grew up near the sea, I have seen (we all do) the damages a plastic can do to the environment. Tons and tons of plastics reach our oceans every day. It’s been a problem ever since plastic was invented.
I have seen animals ingest plastic bags and died. Sea turtles have mistaken plastic bags for jellyfish.
One plastic item that I really HATE are drinking straws! A short-lived useless tool, used only once, then thrown into the garbage and sometimes ends up in the ocean.
In the US alone, they are using over 500,000,000 plastic straws every day. How much more if you add the rest of the world? Plastic straws take hundreds of years to decompose.
Since 2013, I have taken action not to use plastic straws.
If it’s really your thing to use straws, you can invest in a reusable one. There are stainless steel straws, bamboo straws, paper or even glass where you can wash them and use it on another day. In that way, you can help save the environment.
Check out this poor innocent sea turtle with a plastic straw in its nostril.
This video shows how the most useless item can cause destruction when it ends up in our oceans.
Let us take action, Fellow STEEMIANS! Ban the Plastic Straws!
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Also Visit: http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/no-straw-please/ and sign the pledge.
FYI: 5 countries that dump more plastic into the oceans than the rest of the world combined...