You Shouldn’t Use Plastic Straws

When drinking in public, it is customary to make use of a plastic straw, which can be obtained
from practically any specific location. When plastic straws are introduced into natural and animal
ecosystems, they almost always have unintended and undesirable consequences.

Plastic straws are so very lightweight that they are readily carried away by the wind and
dispersed all over the area as a result. Plastic straws not only add to pollution levels but also
make it difficult for microorganisms in the natural world to break down the plastic because of the
long carbon chain they contain. Straws made of plastic degrade into smaller components over
the period of hundreds to thousands of years. If you use a plastic straw, you can be contributing
to the discharge of chemicals that are bad for the environment, as the website stroodles.co.uk
explains. The same non-biodegradable component found in gasoline is also found in plastic
straws. This object will float on the water's surface, where marine life can consume it or it can be
washed away by currents.

Straws are made of plastic, which the National Research Council has determined to be a
possible carcinogen to humans. The intake of these chemicals has been related to a variety of
health issues, including reproductive and cognitive deficits as well as chronic disorders like
obesity, diabetes, and dermatitis. Furthermore, it is dangerous to reuse plastic straws because
mold can grow on trapped food particles. It's possible that mold in your drink would diminish its
overall appeal.

There is currently enough body of evidence to support the conclusion that the use of plastic
straws constitutes a risk to one's health and nature. To extinct plastic straws might be hard, but
there are a few ways to reduce the usage of plastic straws by doing activities, such as:
Switching to paper straws, bringing our own stainless steel straws, and proposing ideas to the
government not to use plastic straws.