While small in the overall global trash issue, environmental groups chose it as an easy specific issue to raise awareness around. Once done, they can move on to a larger issue. Specific and actionable, while also not so big as to be overwhelming is a perfect place to start 
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Unless you like boba tea
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That sucks right?
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Bravo/shame on you.
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I'd agree if I didn't participate in a beach cleanup in May. The number one item we picked up was straws.
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Because people are emotional and anecdotal creatures, resistant to learning by data, and deeply impacted by images and personal experience (“I use straws all the time, and look at this
w/ a straw in its nose”).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It’s a way to have a “good feeling” about waste management, without doing anything meaningful about waste management. And inconveniencing lots of people and businesses in the process.
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Becuase there millions of tons of them in the ocean here is the photo that started it allpic.twitter.com/ozRi8cwW2X
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That’s what happens when you do a straw poll
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okay that's the last straw
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I’d wager it has to do with the hefty fines and jail time.
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The collective hivemind has gotten bored and is grasping for ... straws. There it happened. Not again :(
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Listen to “The Last Straw” podcast from The Indicator by
@planetmoney, they explain it pretty well. More or less, not using plastic straws won’t do a thing for the environment but it might help change our mindset.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's this month's ice bucket challenge
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Last month: scooters
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Don't trigger me maaaannnn
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Feelings of powerlessness on anything that matters, and a deep-seating desire to feel like one is doing _something_?
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