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April 25, 2018
Growing movement to eliminate plastic straws gets NYC restaurant support
Serena Otgonbayar
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A campaign to end the use of disposable
plastic straws is gaining traction in NYC.
The “Give a Sip” campaign, powered
by the Wildlife Conservation Society
aims to stop plastic straws from
entering New York City’s water system
and harming animals that ingest the plastic.
The alternative to plastic straws are
paper straws or reusable ones.
[[Ethan Li, Chef, New York]]
“That’s a good thing.”
[[Phoebe Olderman, Student, New York]]
“A lot of places use the plastic straw, but if more places switched over,
I would use the paper straw.”
However, this may be near
impossible in some places.
Gong Cha in K-Town goes through
up to 1,000 straws a day.
[[Jordan McLeggan, Supervisor, Gong Cha]]
“It’s not going to work because the paper straws can’t sit in [liquid].
It’ll come apart in your cup. And then you might be drinking paper
which is not safe. You can have just reusable straws but then
everybody would have to carry around their own straws everywhere they go.
Finding another alternative is a
problem that businesses will face.
Malibu, California, and Seattle
will soon prohibit plastic straws.
England has also recently announced a
proposal to ban plastic straws.
Since March 20, 50 companies have pledged
to ditch plastic straws in New York City.
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