Why plastic straw bans aren’t the answer.
September 13, 2019
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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the controversy and debate behind plastic straw bans. Specifically, I look at the minimal impact of plastic straws on ocean trash compared to other forms of garbage. The video also discusses how plastic straw bans are a form of eco-ableism in that eliminating plastic straws make the lives of people with disabilities much more complicated. As a result of the eco-ableism inherent in plastic straw bans, ridding whole cities of plastic straws could prove problematic.
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Resources:
1. EcoAbleismWhat It Is, Why It Matters and How It Affects Disabled People (Eco Warrior Princess)
2. The Last StrawAbleism in Environmental Campaigns (Marlee Townsend via UAB Institute for Human Rights)
3. I rely on plastic straws and baby wipes. I’m disabled I have no choice (Penny Pepper via The Guardian)
4. The Amazing History and the Strange Invention of the Bendy Straw (The Atlantic)
5. Bone and Metal Strawtip Beerstrainers from the Ancient Near East (Maeir & Garfinkel)
6. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic (Lebreton et al.)
7. Science SaysAmount of straws, plastic pollution is huge (Phys.org)
8. Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean (Jambeck et al.)
9. A brief history of how plastic straws took over the world (National Geographic)
10. Ocean Conservancy 2018 CleanUp Report (Ocean Conservancy)
11. Hell on Wheel's Infographic (via Rambling Justice)
12. Innovative efforts tackle ghost fishing nets and bring value to waste (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
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