“We don’t know specifics - nobody does - but what we do know about the straw is that they’re always found in the top ten plastic pollution items during beach cleanups every single year,” Ives said.
Her group is one of the most vocal supporters of the movement to stop using plastic straws, and in some cases even banning them, underway across the country. That’s according to Dune Ives, executive director of Lonely Whale. It’s almost impossible to determine exactly how many single-use plastic straws are used every day, and even harder to determine just how many end up in the ocean.
