On January 1, 2019, a ban on plastic straws in restaurants and other service businesses have begun in Washington, D.C. At the beginning of July 2018, Seattle became the largest U.S. city to ban plastic straws. Starbucks plans to phase out plastic straws by 2020. McDonald’s recently announced it will ban plastic straws at its U.K. and Ireland restaurants.…
It is estimated that there are now 150 million metric tons of plastic in the ocean. A recent study estimated as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world’s beaches. In just the U.S. alone, one estimate suggests 500 million straws are used every single day. Plastic kills 1,00,000 marine creatures and 1 million seabirds…
In 2016, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) published studies that estimate, using trash collected on the U.S. coastlines during clean-ups over five years, that there are nearly 7.5 million plastic straws lying around America’s shorelines. They then figure that means for the entire world there are between 437 million and 8.3 billion…
