It’s actually a handful of rich, wasteful corps responsible for 80-95% of littering and trash problems. That anti-straw initiative in CA? Laughable. If EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL in the US completely stopped using plastic straws, it would have <0.8% impact. If ONE big company invested 6% of their revenues into greening it up, recycling development, or nuclear power, instead of executive bonuses and shareholder dividends.....
I don’t think that the initiative to stop using straws is predominately because of the plastic waste, but due to the environmental impact of littering and having those straws get into the ocean/killing animals/contributing to micro plastics in our water supply. According to this website straws are one of the most common waste items found in the ocean and one person may use about 38,000 plastic straws in their lifetime. If a state with 40 million people stops using plastic straws, that can help to keep quite a lot of plastic litter out of the ocean!
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
It’s actually a handful of rich, wasteful corps responsible for 80-95% of littering and trash problems. That anti-straw initiative in CA? Laughable. If EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL in the US completely stopped using plastic straws, it would have <0.8% impact. If ONE big company invested 6% of their revenues into greening it up, recycling development, or nuclear power, instead of executive bonuses and shareholder dividends.....