WOULD WE BE GRASPING AT STRAWS BY BANNING THEM?

This piece looks at the pressure in the USA to ban plastic drinking straws, just as in the UK. But the reality is that the main culprits for polluting the oceans with plastic are not the USA or the UK, but in fact, countries in Africa and Asia. Therefore our bans will have very little effect, but simply be a form of virtue signalling, achieving very little in practice.