Billions of straws are being used and disposed every single day world wide. In the U.S. alone, we’re using about 500 million straws daily. Most if not all of these plastic straws are not recyclable simply because they’re too small and would fall through the sorter machines at recycling plants. Even when most of them usually end up on landfills, a small percentage of those billions of straws still find their ways to our oceans everyday. And because they’re so small, they are hurting and killing many marine life and wildlife. Not to mention plastic straws also contain toxic chemicals like polypropylene and Bisphenol A (BPA), which are known to cause cancer and other serious health issues.