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Straw Alternatives
Plastic straws are small, light and practical – so why should we use alternatives made from other materials? They may be small, but plastic straws cause significant damage. 360 billion plastic straws are used around the world every year, which makes it a serious ecological problem.
This is why we should avoid plastic straws:
Environmentally damaging production:
Crude oil is required to make plastic – a finite resource whose extraction causes major environmental pollution.
Microplastics are formed:
Plastic straws break down into smaller pieces over many decades.They form microplastics, which can get into the soil and oceans.
Poor ingredients:
Plasticisers such as BPA (bisphenol A) are often used to make plastic straws. They are suspected of being harmful.
Environmental pollution:
Plastic straws are so small and light that they can easily contaminate the environment. Shipping often entails storing waste at the ports, and this is how plastic straws can get into the oceans.
Difficult to degrade:
Plastic straws contain polypropylenes. There are many different reasons why plastic straws still end up in the environment. It then takes up to 500 years for polypropylene to decompose.
Dangerous for animals:
Wildlife can easily swallow or inhale the thin straws. It also affects us humans: we can ingest microplastics when we eat fish.
Here are a few alternatives to plastic straws
You don't have to stop using straws completely to enjoy your favourite drinks.Below
you will find an overview of plastic straw alternatives along with their pros and
cons compared to plastic straws.
Paper straws
Paper straws are an obvious plastic straw alternative – after all, they were used before plastic was invented. However, paper straws are still a single-use product with a questionable life-cycle assessment.