We use close to 10 million straws a day all made of plastics. Another figure puts 500 million Straws are used alone in USA every day. A single restaurant chain uses close to 900,000 straws every day in Australia. More than half of it enters oceans and landfills. Going by the numbers, Walt Disney like other major giants i.e Starbucks have decided to ban straws from their restaurants in all the locations across the world. Plastic Straws create havoc and mayhem with the marine life and as they slowly gets eroded, turn to micro plastics and gets into the food-chain reaching us humans only. Turtles, fishes and other marine life think of straws as food and eat them or get entangled into it thus reducing their life span. Alternatives are steel straws which can be collected from the user after its use or straws made of papers which has been introduced by Starbucks at some locations in the world. We at PRO -plastics, the first Producer Responsibility Organization, Plastics in India are currently generating awareness regarding the same measures to be taken in India too and make our restaurants and recreation centers free of plastic straws.
