Plastic Straws Aren't The Problem
Started by diddly • 2018-08-25 14:45:11
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Society is getting all up-in-arms over plastic straws and how they're ruining our environment, after a photo of a turtle with a straw up its nose went viral. Maybe it just has a coke problem? :)
In reality, if we dumped every plastic straw we consume in a year into the ocean, it would account for 0.03% of the plastic waste. The real culprit? 46% of the garbage patch in the ocean is from fishing nets! [url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem]source[/url]
In reality, if we dumped every plastic straw we consume in a year into the ocean, it would account for 0.03% of the plastic waste. The real culprit? 46% of the garbage patch in the ocean is from fishing nets! [url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem]source[/url]
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This article claims cigarette butts are the single biggest source of waste: [url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plastic-straw-ban-cigarette-butts-are-single-greatest-source-ocean-n903661]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plastic-straw-ban-cigarette-butts-are-single-greatest-source-ocean-n903661[/url]