PLASTIC STRAWS
“It’s just one straw,” said 8 billion people. Plastic pollution fact: We use more than 500 million plastic straws each day. Straws are too small to be easily recycled. In fact, plastic straws are one of the top polluters on our beaches and can be harmful to animals.
PLASTIC BAGS
Plastic pollution fact: Globally, one million single-use plastic bags are used every minute and only one percent of plastic bags are recycled each year. In 2014, California became the first state to ban plastic bags, which made international news. This decision set the tone for how the rest of the country deals with the plastic bag problem.