If it’s not biodegradable, refuse to use it – drinking straw becomes icon of pollution – Namibia

If it’s not biodegradable, refuse to use it – drinking straw becomes icon of pollution – Namibia

Posted on March 29, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Straws

An object as insignificant as a drinking straw has just been chosen by an environmental coalition as their symbol of the contamination of nature by plastic.

Source: If it’s not biodegradable, refuse to use it – drinking straw becomes icon of pollution

“With this campaign we call on all hotels, restaurants and food & beverage outlets to consider reducing, if not completely banning the use of one-way plastic straws. We wish to focus attention on the disastrous consequences of non-recyclable plastics ending up in rivers and oceans,” stated the No Straw alliance.