Starbucks has officially abandoned straws in favor of sippy cup lids … well, mostly
Jazmin Goodwin, CNN Business Starbucks has announced that it plans on phasing out all plastic straws from its 28,000 stores worldwide by 2020. Some of its drink cups will be fitted with special flat plastic lids that can be used without straws. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SOURCE: Justin ...
Plastic Pollution Critical Threat to Florida Sea Turtles
Two scientists, David Duffy and Catherine Eastman, at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital at the University of Florida, wrote an article on EcoWatch about the ubiquity of plastic in the oceans and the harm it brings to sea turtles. Turtles face a variety of threats, including conservation or climate change, but plastic is ...
Watch “The Sea Turtle with a Straw in its Nostril – No To Single Use Plastics
THE FULL STORY: My research team found a male olive ridley sea turtle during an in-water research trip in Costa Rica. He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril. After initially thinking that we are looking at a parasitic worm, and trying to remove it to identify ...