Billions of Discarded Straws
Environmental Issues
In an effort to reduce the mountains of plastic refuse we produce day after day, the EU Commission wants to regulate the use of throw-away plastic cutlery. Items such as drinking straws might seem negligible at first, but when you consider that 3.5 million straws are given out a day by McDonald’s in the UK alone, you grasp that even little changes in what single-use items we consume can make a real difference. According to figures released by consulting firm Eunomia, the UK consumes by far the most straws in the EU. Try your coke without a straw next time - it almost tastes the same!
Description
This chart shows countries with the highest consumption of single-use plastic drinking straws (in billion per year)
