How many pieces of plastic straws are in the ocean?
– please change to use the disposable paper straws
FACTS & FIGURES
- The United States uses millions of disposable plastic straws per day
- Plastic straws are among the top 10 contributors to plastic marine debris across the world
- Nearly 7.5 million plastic straws were found on U.S. shorelines during a five-year cleanup research project. Extrapolated globally, that is 437 million to 8.3 million plastic straws on the world’s coastlines
- Currently, plastic straws make up about 99% of the USD3 billion global drinking-straw market
What is the impact of disposabale paper straws on the environment?
- Plastic straws can not be fully degraded. It takes up to 200 years to gradually disintegrating into smaller and smaller particles – known as microplastics, then made its way into our ground water and our food supply.
- Plastic straws are difficult to recycle. 8.300 million metric tons of plastic that has ever been produced, only 9% of plastics are recycled in spite of increased recycling efforts and education.
- Plastic straws pollute our oceans and waterways. It’s estimated that 8 million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean each year, and 1.15-2.41 tons of it is carried there down major rivers around the world.
- Plastic straws are harmful for ocean wildlife. It’s estimated that around 800 different species are affected by ocean plastic pollution and that at least 100.000 marine mammals die every year as a result of plastic debris.
Global Sources – Disposable Paper Straws
How To make paper straws?
Manufacturing paper straws is a completely different process to producing plastic straws. Typically constructed of 3 plies of paper, the plies are bonded together with a small amount of water-based adhesive using a core-winding machine, or hot melt adhesives using a slot nozzle machine for very fast production lines.
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