As you know, every time you go to Starbucks for coffee, you definitely need to use a straw. Around the world, 2 billion straws are consumed every day, most of these straws are disposable and discarded after use.This is causing very serious damage to the environment.
Worldwide, more than 790,000 volunteers picked up more than 430,000 plastic straws from shore in 2015, according to the Ocean Conservancy.These straws that you throw away at the beach are a life hazard for Marine animals. When the plastic straws are thrown away, the plastic parts in the middle oxidize and break down into small particles, making it difficult for Marine life to separate them from food. Around a million birds and 100,000 sea creatures die each year in the UK from eating plastic or getting tangled up in it. The volunteers also found a lot of plastic in the bodies of sea creatures near the beach.
Not only is there a huge amount of pollution from plastic straws, but there is also one possible problem with using plastic straws — health
The regular straw material is mainly food-grade plastic: polypropylene, commonly known as PP, can withstand the high temperature of about 80℃, and will not emit plastic smell when heated. However, many illegal traders use recycled plastic products to make mixed plastics, whose quality is difficult to guarantee. There may be a lot of harmful substances inside, and can not meet the requirements of health licensing, harmful to the human body.The telegraph reports that queen Elizabeth ii has banned plastic straws and bottles from all royal estates. McDonald’s says it will scrap plastic straws in its UK restaurants.So refuse to use disposable straws and protect our beautiful earth