While Mallos acknowledges plastic straws are still needed in some cases - such as in hospitals and for people with disabilities - he encourages people to look at other alternatives like glass, metal or even paper straws. Here & Now's Robin Young talks with Nick Mallos ( of the Ocean Conservancy about the fallout from single-use plastics. and Canada, the bans are being taken up by individual cities, like Malibu, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia. In the U.K., estimates are about 8.5 billion per year, prompting Prime Minister Theresa May to call single-use plastics "one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world," and to promote legislation that would ban them. (manfredrichter/Pixabay)Īmericans discard millions of plastic straws every day. Facebook Email The demand for paper straws has risen as cities and companies like Los Angeles and Starbucks have stopped using plastic straws.
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