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Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses. 每天国人都要扔?亿根塑料吸管Q以绕地球两圈Q或者装?25辆校车?
Made from fossil fuels, they are almost never recycled because they're too small and could be made from several different types of plastic. They simply contribute to the massive problem of plastic pollution; eight million tons of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year. 用化石燃料制成的塑料吸管几乎从来不会被回收利用，因ؓ它们体积太小Q而且可能是由好几U不同类型的塑料制成的。这些吸直接加剧了塑料污染的严重问题，每年都会?00万吨塑料被們ր进h中?
小的塑料吸竟然会造成手的环境问题，很多成h可能都没有意识到Q但是美国一?岁的孩却意识到了，q发起了W一场反吸管q动Q让塑料吸管成ؓ可选项?
Plastic straws are now the target of a growing movement to reduce their use. Possibly the first of such campaigns, Be Straw Free was started in 2011 by Milo Cress, who was only nine years old at the time. "I noticed that whenever I ordered a drink at a restaurant, it would usually come with a straw in it, and I don't usually need a straw," he said. 现在以减塑料吸用量为目标的q动来多。“不用吸”可能是W一Lq动Q该q动?011q由q仅9岁的c罗•克h发v。克h_“我注意刎ͼ无论何时我在厅炚w料，杯子里M有吸，而我一般不需要吸。?
"This seemed like a huge waste. Straws are made of oil, a precious and finite resource. Is making single-use plastic straws, which will be used for a matter of minutes before being tossed away, really what we want to do with this resource?" “这看v来是一个巨大的费。塑料吸是用石油制成的Q而石Ҏ一U宝늚有限资源。用xa生才用几分钟就丢掉的一ơ性吸，我们真的惌么利用资源吗Q?
Cress started asking restaurants in Burlington, Vermont, where he lived at the time, to stop providing straws automatically to customers and make them optional instead. Many agreed and his request made ripples nationwide. He says that restaurants that make the switch report a reduction in the number of straws they use between 50 and 80%. 克雷斯开始请求他当时的居住地佛蒙特州伯灵的厅停止自动为顾客提供吸，改ؓ自选。许多餐厅都同意了，他的h产生的媄响像涟漪一般在全国扩散开来。他_做出改变的餐厅报告说Q所用的吸管数量减少?0%?0%?
而在大西z的另一_英国Z开始采取措施应对塑料吸造成的浪费和污染。英国一家连锁酒吧选择使用比塑料吸更环保的替代品?
The anti-straw sentiment has crossed borders into the UK, where straws have been included in a government plan to ban all plastic waste by 2042. Last year, large pub chain Wetherspoons announced that it would replace plastic straws with paper alternatives across 900 outlets. After the announcement, many smaller chains and pubs across the country followed suit. According to Wetherspoons CEO John Hutson, the move will save 70 million plastic straws a year and the reaction from patrons has been "very positive." 反吸热潮还扩散C英国Q吸被U_了英国政府在2042q前止所有塑料垃圄计划。去q_大型q锁酒吧Wetherspoons宣布Q将?00家分店中把塑料吸替换ؓU吸。在q之后，英国许多中小型连锁店和酒吧纷UhѝWetherspoons公司的首席执行官U翰•哈Ҏ表示Q此举每q将节省7000万根塑料吸管Q从客户那里得到的反馈也“非常积极”?
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Offering alternatives or making plastic straws optional, rather than banning them outright, is a common trait among these campaigns. "We do not want to make people feel bad for needing or even wanting to use a straw in their drink," said Jackie Nunez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw. 提供塑料吸管的替代品Q或者将塑料吸管变ؓ可选项Q而不是完全禁止，是这cL动的普遍特征。“最后一根塑料吸”运动的创始人杰基•努涅斯_“我们不惌Z因ؓ需要或惌用吸喝饮料而感C痛快。?
"There are many other viable alternatives to single-use plastic drinking straws that are less harmful to the environment, wildlife and humans," she said. 她说Q“有其他许多对环境、野生动物和人类更无害的可行选择可以替代一ơ性塑料吸。?
Some people use straws to reduce the damage of sugary or acidic drinks to their teeth, or due to special requirements. "There are disabled people who write me to tell me they carry reusable straws with them -- many reusable straws even come with a carrying case," said Cress. "There are reusable glass, stainless steel, copper, bamboo, and several other kinds of reusable straws." 有些Zؓ了降低含p或酸性饮料对牙的伤x其他Ҏ需求而用吸。“有些不得不用吸的人写信告诉我Q他们随w携带可反复使用的吸——许多这U吸还自带收纳盒，”克h_“现在有可反复用的ȝ吸管、不锈钢吸管、铜吸管、竹吸管Q还有好几种其他cd的吸可多次使用。?
By not demonizing the straw as an object, he thinks activists can hope to achieve better goals. "I am not out to ban straws. I think it's much more effective to encourage people to make the choice not to use them. Voluntary participation encourages people to spread the word. Forcing people to do things is not always the most effective way to make a change." 他认为，如果不将吸管q个物品妖魔化，反吸活动有望达到更高的目标。“我不赞成禁止吸。我认ؓ鼓励Z选择不用吸管会有效得多。自愿的参与会鼓׃h们传播信息。强qh们去做事不一定是达成改变最有效的方式。?
