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The Last Straw?
In Australia, efforts to get rid of single-use plastic straws have been piecemeal, but momentum is growing.
So far, around 100 venues, including bars, restaurants and clubs, have partnered with The Last Straw campaign to remove all single-use straws.
In January, more than 30 tourism operators in Cairns and Port Douglas signed up to ban plastic straws at businesses around the Great Barrier Reef.
And earlier this month, 10-year-old Molly Steer convinced the Cairns Regional Council to get rid of straws and other single-use plastics in its council operations.
But Australia is likely to lag behind on the world stage when it comes to a nationwide straw ban.
cotland has announced plans to phase out straws by 2019, and there are rumours of a European Union-wide ban after a Twitter spat between UK Environment Minister Michael Gove and European commission vice-president Frans Timmermans in February.
After Mr Gove tweeted on the subject of a UK straw ban, Mr Timmermans responded that the EU is "One step ahead of you. EU legislation on single-use plastics coming before summer."
Straws typically aren't able to be sorted at mechanical recycling facilities, and end up as landfill.
They also have an uncanny ability to find their way into the environment, where they are eaten by seabirds, turtles and other marine life.
Volunteers in Sydney have so far pulled more than a thousand single-use straws from Manly Cove, where local dive instructor Harriet Spark has launched "Operation Straw" in an attempt to clean up the mess.
"On one of our dives we actually found an octopus holding four straws in its tentacles," she told ABC Radio Sydney earlier this year.
"One of the biggest offenders is McDonald's straws; we find a lot of them."
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/plastic-bag-bans-are-coming-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ar-...
