Plastic bags are a convenient way to carry our purchased goods when we go shopping. Time and again, plastic sinners are forced into public confessions in newspapers or on the radio. Forcing constituents to transition to reusable bags without alerting everyone to the risks of cross-contamination and teaching them how to use and care for the bags would be a public health danger, according to the University of Arizona article.

As plastic bags tend to get caught in recycling machinery, most recycling facilities do not have the capacity to recycle plastic bags and therefore do not accept them. These could be cleaning products, the clothes we wear, grocery bags, paints, dyes etc. Innumerable deaths from unnatural causes and the development of debilitating diseases in humans have been linked to stuff like air pollution and harmful toxins in our food and other products that we have obtained from our natural environment.

The Last Plastic Straw and Plastic Pollution Coalition are building momentum around a worldwide movement, so plastic straws become a relic of the past. Whenever we throw something like paper, food peels, leaves etc there are small tiny creatures in nature - the bacteria - who eat these things up or turn them into useful products that nature loves.

Plastic bags are a huge problem. Moreover, as plastic bags decompose, tiny toxics seep into soils, lakes, rivers and the oceans (Roach 2003). Hong Kong imposed a 50-cent levy on plastic shopping bags a few years ago, but it's not enough to tackle the city's serious waste problem.

The silicone stretch storage lids are still made of plastic, and again, the coffee giant has had a hard enough time addressing its cup-waste issue Compostable straws, likewise, are only beneficial in an appropriate composting facility; large swaths of the world don't have access to municipal composting facilities.