The anti-straw movement finds a new ally in Disney

After stating that one behind the other " straws ", as they are called in Spain, which are consumed daily in United States could be given two and a half times around the planet Earth, the movement proposes a "simple challenge" in favor of the environment, In restaurants, bars, cafeterias, etc., he urges them to voluntarily eliminate this what is called in Mexico " straws " or at least to provide what the Colombians call a "cigarette". "only to those who expressly request it and in this case a fact made of biodegradable or reusable materials."

The citizen claims that when he asks to drink in a restaurant or bar, he specifies that he does not want to "straw" (in English) and encourages others to do the same – what is basically what they ask for is "do less" – less consumption, less waste and fewer straws – to end the problem "at the source" before it reaches the limits, rivers and seas affect the animals that inhabit them

"Together, 25,000 people can save 5,000,000 straws a year ", says one of the currencies of LPS

On the website of the Coalition against Plastic Pollution, those who wish to know how this small" threat Giant "was created, as they call it, will find a brief history of straw Mesopotamia the first to use canes for According to an explanatory video with figures of this ancient culture that contrast with the current image of a veterinarian extracting a straw from the nostril of a turtle and others of volunteers collecting mountains of remains of objects

According to this video, the "boom" of straws occurred in the 50s in the United States the hand of mass cars and taste of eating fast food.

Among the many information available on the subject on the Internet, two facts stand out: for a plastic straw to be completely degraded, one has to spend up to 200 years and every year a million of them. birds and 100,000 other marine animals die by ingesting plastics.