Abstract :
In the year of 2019 with the following years, people will have a problem with
plastic. Plastic is one of the most used item in the history of human being. People
use it as a packaging, fishing lines, glues, etc every day without realizing on how
long it takes for plastic to decomposed/disappear. It only takes hours or maybe
minutes for them to throw plastic like its going to disappear in seconds, when
normally, plastic takes over 100 years or more to dicomposed. So that I come with
a breakthrough of creating an edible straw that I called ?Sea-Straw?.
Sea-Straw is made out of seaweed that came out of the ocean.
Before we get through a lot more question, here is a fact:
1. In the year of 2017, Americans used about 390 million plastic straws each
day. This data comes from from the market research firm, Freedonia
Group.
2. Straws are currently the 8th most found ocean trash in cleanups by quanity
(January 2019).
3. It is projected that by 2050, 99% of all sea bird species will have ingested
plastic. Mortality rate can be ?up to? 50%. And, already, research has
shown plastic in sea salt, 94% of U.S. tap water, and shellfish.
Plastic Straws are really bad for the Earth, especially to the ocean. When
plastic does make it into the ocean it breaks down into smaller and smaller
pieces known as ?microplastics? rather than biodegrading or dissolving, which
poses great threats to marine life including fish.