Plastic Straws Are A Visible Embodiment Of A Bigger Problem


Plastic Straws Are A Visible Embodiment Of A Bigger Problem


Plastic straws are the latest poster child of environmental concern.

The Masked Biologist examines the current cultural move away from the use of plastic straws in this week’s Wildlife Matters.

If you have spent any time on social media, you may have seen it—a video of a person using a pliers to extract a plastic straw from the nostril of a sea turtle. It was no surprise to me, a short time later, to start hearing about some locations outlawing plastic straws. When I started doing a little research, I found out that while sad and a little disgusting, the turtle nasal straw apparently was not the primary impetus for subsequent straw bans around the country...

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Ken Notes: Good read! One idea not on the radar screen is to incorporate the cost of disposal or reuse into all our consumables and packaging. We pay for this now in taxes or waste management fees, why not collect for this up front where we can charge a little more for products that cause the most problems. This would also encourage the actual industry to promote proper disposal or products with less environmental impact.

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