@carnage4life the plastic vs. paper straws argument is so tiny. We need to be thinking bigger as some of the largest polluters in terms of plastic are relatively small countries that can be helped to do much better. The Philippines alone is the world's largest ocean plastic contributor producing over 36% of the plastic waste in the ocean.

I witnessed this myself before the pandemic at a beach close to Matnog (Sorsogon in southern Luzon), the plastic coming off a river has literally covered the ocean floor in plastic as far as you can see! You can dive and swim, and swim, and swim and it's a sea of plastic! This is only one river and one beach but the same thing happens in many other rivers and beaches. I didn't have a waterproof camera at the time, but I'm sure footage of this place would easily reach national news as it's extremely disheartening to see the level of damage we have caused.