Why plastic straw bans aren’t the answer.

Use this link to get 2 months of Skillshare for free: In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the controversy and debate behind plastic straw bans. Specifically, I look at the minimal impact of plastic straws on ocean trash compared to other forms of garbage. The video also discusses how plastic straw bans are a form of eco-ableism in that eliminating plastic straws make the lives of people with disabilities much more complicated. As a result of the eco-ableism inherent in plastic straw bans, ridding whole cities of plastic straws could prove problematic. Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: I use for all my music. You can get 2 months free of with this link: ___________ Resources: 1. Eco-Ableism: What It Is, Why It Matters and How It Affects Disabled People (Eco Warrior Princess): 2. The Last Straw: Ableism in Environmental Campaigns (Marlee Townsend via UAB Institute for Human Rights): 3. I rely on plastic straws and baby wipes. I’m disabled – I have no choice (Penny Pepper via The Guardian): 4. The Amazing History and the Strange Invention of the Bendy Straw (The Atlantic): 5. Bone and Metal Straw-tip Beer-strainers from the Ancient Near East (Maeir & Garfinkel): 6. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic (Lebreton et al.): 7. Science Says: Amount of straws, plastic pollution is huge (): 8. Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean (Jambeck et al.): 9. A brief history of how plastic straws took over the world (National Geographic): 10. Ocean Conservancy 2018 Clean-Up Report (Ocean Conservancy): 11. Hell on Wheel’s Infographic (via Rambling Justice): 12. Innovative efforts tackle ghost fishing nets and bring value to waste (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations):