> The plastic straw that the EU just outlawed would never have ended up in the ocean. A significant amount of plastic straws and bottle caps actually did up at

> The plastic straw that the EU just outlawed would never have ended up in the ocean. A significant amount of plastic straws and bottle caps actually did up at least in the rivers - a single look at how the Isar in Munich looks after a party summer night is enough evidence - and what enters the Isar, Danube or any other river will eventually end up in the ocean or get stuck in a major lake where it degrades, gets eaten by fish and then ends up in humans when we eat the fish. Metal bottle caps can at least be fished out by magnets and recycled, but there's no way to capture plastic particles yet. And that does not take into account all the plastics trash that gets shipped overseas to some piss poor Asian or African country, where it gets sorted, and all the refuse just gets dumped on some landfill where it eventually gets washed into the ocean by rainfall, or it gets incinerated where it creates absurdly toxic combustion products.