Plastic straws are illegal...but what about Capri Sun straws?

@SW-User probably associated with drug paraphernalia

Something about cutting out plastic from our lives little by little to save the earth I guess. I seriously doubt plastic straws make that much of a difference tbh. @SW-User

@GlitterBug oh was I totally off

Would make a lot more sense if that was the actual reason though. @SW-User

@SW-User There are a little over 300 million people in America and together we use 520 million single-use, plastic straws [b]Every.Single.Day[/b]!! Plastic takes thousands of years to break down so this is a huge issue of waste. And, to make it worse, a lot of our plastic trash ends up in the ocean where sea animals mistake it for food and get injured trying to swallow it.

@IAmJess oh, that makes a lot of sense. I don't think I ever have used a straw so I never really thought on the impact of it waste

@SW-User Yeah, when you look at the numbers, it's pretty crazy. On average, each American uses 1.5 straws per day. Good for you on not using them. But make sure that when you order a coke at a restaurant that you specify no straw, because if they bring it to the table, it gets thrown out whether you use it or not. :)

Not as much plastic in the ocean comes from the us as you think btw. Not saying it isn’t still an issue, but maybe you should look into those numbers...the other stuff looks about right though. Does get a bit sad to think about the waste. Lot of good alternatives to plastic. @IAmJess

@GlitterBug I'm sorry ... I wasn't careful in my wording. I meant to say... [quote]"And, to make it worse, a lot of [b]the world's[/b] plastic trash..."[/quote]
The first half of my response had to do with the USA only and the second half (which I neglected to separate) had to do with us as a whole world. My bad.

Ah okay. A little off topic but I was reading about some of the developments in removing plastic rom the ocean and they’re making really good progress already, it’s exciting. @IAmJess

@GlitterBug I haven't read much about it, but I did once see this boat that like literally ate the plastic from the front as it moved through the floating pile. Kinda cool.

But yeah, it needs to be dealt with. :)