Have Your Cocktail and Eat Your Straw Too

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According to the National Park Service, Americans use 500 million straws a day. That’s enough straws to fill 125 school buses.

More often than not, these straws are made of plastic and not recycled. Some businesses, like Aramark, which serves 2 billion meals daily across 19 countries, has set a goal of reducing 60% of straws in their operations by 2020. Other businesses have created straw alternatives, like Starbucks’ “sippy lid.”