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Straw. Why straw?

Hye there folks. Its has been quite some time since the implementation of no straw usage in Malaysia. Metal straw have reached "like minded" environmentalist who really in an effort to use less plastic straw. Others buy the straw for trendy purposes only and some even stored the straw until there is no more plastic straw used in the market, then only want to use the metal straw. Such mentality.. Urghh. As everyone knows, plastic straw ban is linked to protection of aquatic wildlife and especially turtle. Why focus on turtle? Isn't there any other animal to be focusing on other than turtle? what is so significant about turtle? Lets find out then. based on a website Greentumble, " Our marine ecosystem is facing significant threats from overfishing pollution and climate change. Marine life plays an important role in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans. For example, mussels are the “engineers” of the marine ecosystem  [1] . They “clean” water by suc...

why is plastic harmfull.

hi there to readers. First of all, my name is Eng Hook. but my friends pronounce the "Hook" as "Hock". lets talk about the environment here on our lovely Earth. As far as the eyes can see and even the telescope plus satelites, there is only 1 Earth. Where we are at the utmost ideal condition to live. but that "ideal condition" is about to end if we dont act quickly. Why is that? let me tell you why. plastics they kill us all slowly. From what i learn in a video publish by Kurzgesact in youtube, plastic can be broken down into smaller pieces call microplastic. this happens because of the presence of UV rays from sunlight. you might be thinking. How in the world would a plastic harm you? well now you are going to know about it. Microplastic are small. smaller than a plankton.  As we know, plankton eats smaller stuff to grow. not like the one in spongebob squarepants. we have billions of plankton in just a few feet deep of water in the sea. So wh...