Plastic straws are the least of our worries.
A few days ago, my 9-year-old daughter proudly showed me her stainless steel straw she’d gotten during her school field trip. As she demonstrated how the tiny squeegee that came with the straw would keep it clean, she recited statistics about the danger single-use plastic straws pose to the earth’s oceans, especially turtles.. Sort of. I’m proud of my kid for being excited about conservationism, so I of course didn’t crush her enthusiasm. But I’m not kidding about the straws.
We most certainly have a problem with plastic debris being dumped into our oceans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which hovers between the coast of California and Hawaii, covers 1.6 million square kilometers—that’s twice the size of Texas—and is growing larger by the day.
for disposal of this type of gear as well as a marking system that would identify the owner of dumped gear so they could be penalized. The problem is that many countries in the developing world rely on the fishing industry to support their economy, and many don’t have the infrastructure to properly dispose of fishing waste. On top of that, fishermen have to be convinced that it’s worth their while to spend the time and effort to dispose of their nets properly.
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