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Originally Posted by sunglow
My husband and I are now asking servers at restaurants to please hold back the straws. After reading the facts about how many straws we use in the U.S. each year - 500 million DAILY - enough to circle earth 2.5 times! And they for the most part can't be recycled and end up in our landfills and our oceans. The Great Pacific garbage patch is twice the size of France and contains nearly 80,000 tons of plastic. I hope people will read this and will also ask their servers to hold back the straws.
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Sunglow: Quoting dubious facts.
NBC News on Sunday backed off a dubious claim*that Americans use 1.6 straws a day on average, after critics noted*it was based on research from a nine-year-old boy whose methodology never has undergone any significant scrutiny.
This Kid Single-Handedly Ignited the Plastic Straw Ban Movement