Stupid nonsense, the straw isn't polluting anything it's humans bad way what to do with the garbage. And then it doesn't matters if it's plastic in bag, straw or whatever form.
Pretty sure when I use a plastic straw here in Germany and throw it in an urbie shaped can it ends up just in the power production of a local city power plant. But surely not in the sea.
You know what ends in a sea more likely? Every rollerbladers microaplastic abrasion of their tires, it lands directly in the local environment around us, and wind might even blow it into our lungs. And when it rains it just gets washed into ground, streams or rivers and the sewers and might end up much more likely into the sea.
Also, how many plastic straws can I make out of the plastic resources that a PS4 is made of? quite a loooooooooooooot. So why is "drinking entertainment" now more "evil" than gaming entertainment? Ah yeah pseudo fake pro nature activists said so. But then we should not allow any movie productions around the world anymore. Because am pretty sure flying all that LOTR staff to new Zealand had a quite unnecessary(because just entertainment) consumption of resources.
So stop telling straws are some bad stuff, otherwise I bring 100's of examples of equally useless plastic consumption which people do daily and is equally "unnecessary". But then those people get mad because they would loose things they like and think they "need" it or is part of their daily Life.
However, yes you could use reusable glass straws, or metal ones.
You could also ask your favorite place if they wanna change to some ecological straws, thy exist made from sugarcane plant fibers and some minerals. They surely might not be as cheap as regular ones but customers can then still enjoy their drinks with straws.
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still questionable if straws shipped around half the globe with heavy oil fueled ships is any sort of proper nature positive thing.