1. why plastic straws should be banned
By Lillian Orum

2. Reason 1. Keep our earth clean!
You will live on this earth for the rest of your life
so you want it to be clean and healthy. But when you use disposable
plastic straws and other plastics such as bottles and bags, they end up in our oceans causing
pollution and marine mammals to ingest this plastic, and even die.
You call that healthy?

3. You might be thinking, why plastic straws
You might be thinking, why plastic straws? Well the reason that I have decided on plastic straws specifically, is because I realized that I have to start somewhere and I can’t ban all plastic objetcts. So I thought I would start with something that was especially harmful to our planet… Plastic straws.

4. Every day 500,000,000 plastic straws are produced
and sadly, most of them end up in our oceans. These
straws are apart of millions of trash that cause about 100,000
marine mammals to ingest plastic.

5. Reason 2. Animal population is decreasing
Sadly the pollution of plastic straws and other debris doesn't just make our oceans unclean, it also makes them unsafe. Because of this pollution, our marine animals are being threatened. plastic-for-dinner

6. Sources:
“Ocean Plastics Pollution.” Ocean Plastics Pollution. N.p.,n.d.Web. 11 Sept plastic-for-dinner