Comment by wqaatwt
How exactly (and if) do plastic straws from the EU end up in the Pacific Ocean, though? Maybe they could have started with that
How exactly (and if) do plastic straws from the EU end up in the Pacific Ocean, though? Maybe they could have started with that
Obviously I implicitly meant all single use plastics. But random people littering is not even remotely the main source.
Poor and unregulated waste management is. Of course the fact that a lot of western countries were and still are exporting their plastic waste to poorer countries where they somehow end up in rivers and oceans.
However there is no inherent reason why plastic straws or anything else inherently have to be dumped into oceans.
Of course silly token measures are much easier than actually regulating the global fishing industry..
You might as well ask how microplastics get into fresh snow in Antarctica - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61739159
Because people litter them and it ends up in the ocean? And it is based on research, as I quoted in my previous post.
My entire point it's not just about plastic straws. I don't know why you need to reduce this to just plastic straws.