We’re missing the obvious in our public conversation about plastic-straw bans: the fish on our plates.
that another 20% is plastic waste, from the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. That’s right: Nearly half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result not of our single-use plastic addiction, but of our eating fish, the same fish we pledge to protect by ditching plastic straws.
Plastic straws are just one of the thousands of plastic items humans use daily, and the impact of banning them may just be a drop in the ocean when it comes to marine pollution. Don’t get me wrong — we should ban them. And we should applaud thein places like Oakland, Seattle, Malibu, and Miami Beach, and companies like Starbucks, Disney, and Hyatt, for taking action to eliminate plastic straws from their cities, stores, and locations.
Old fishing equipment isn’t the only threat marine animals contend with on the high seas. According to a report from the ocean conservancy group Oceana, in the U.S. alone, each year aboutof the billions of marine animals caught by the fishing industry are considered “bycatch,” meaning they weren’t intentionally caught. They’re tossed back into the ocean, often dead or too injured to survive. These include sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks.
Discarded fishing equipment left floating in the ocean often tangles with other equipment and miscellaneous plastics to create “ghost nets” ike this one, which is seen here being pulled onto the deck of the Greenpeace shipAnd the treatment of fish who are intentionally caught, and farmed fish, is even worse. Most farmed fish are killed by
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