Hell, 3d, I thought you were smarter than that.
The funny answer is because they suck
The serious answer is explained at this link. FYI.
https://www.1millionwomen.com.au/blog/straws-why-they-seriously-suck/
Single-use plastic is a particularly nasty form of plastic. These items have a shockingly short lifespan, normally used once and then discarded to landfill. Like other plastics, they never biodegrade and take hundreds of years to break down. Plastic straws are one such single-use item, and are ending up in our oceans by the thousands.
Plastic straws made the 'top ten' items picked up on beach clean ups, and it's not hard to see why. Avid scuba diver Kasey Turner was snorkeling after work recently at a popular dive site in Manly, Australia. In the area she found 319 straws on a single 20-minute snorkel. 24 hours later Kasey went back and did another and found 294 in the exact same place.
The following weekend, inspired by Kasey's actions, I jumped in for a dive and found another 150, highlighting just how quickly these plastic pollution accumulates.
[h=3]Why are straws so damaging to the marine environment?[/h]Disposable straws are usually made from plastic and plastic never breaks down. As time goes by plastic will separate into smaller and smaller pieces, but never completely biodegrades.
In USA alone, 500 million straws are used every single day. We use straws for around twenty minutes before we toss them away, which is an astonishingly quick lifespan for an item that will be on the planet forever. Straws also contain BPA,
Did she intentionally miss all of the other plastic trash? What about cups, plates, bags, etc? She just went around, only collecting straws? Why?
