By Laura Parker, April 13, 2017 “Americans use 500 million straws daily. Citizen activisits want to shrink that number.” Of the eight million tons of plastic trash that flow every year into the world’s oceans, the plastic drinking straw is surely not a top contributor to all that tonnage. Yet this small, slender tube, utterly … Continue reading “Straw Wars: The Fight to Rid the Oceans of Discarded Plastic”, National Geographic