I read "The Humble Plastic Straw" at the Indy website. While the content was interesting, to me, it was far from complete and missed the mark entirely. The writer’s statistics and declaration of environmental and animal harm may all be quite correct. What I do note is the writer’s omission of how the harmful material (plastics) is getting into the ocean and who are the culprits?
I live in a beach community — a typical California coastal city — and see minimal amounts of trash of all types on the beach, though any of it might wash into the ocean.
Beach trash doesn’t seem to be the cause, so what is? How is all this plastic trash entering the ocean?