ELi5: How did plastic straws specifically become targeted for eco-friendly banning, but similar disposables like plastic forks and spoons didn’t?

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ELi5: How did plastic straws specifically become targeted for eco-friendly banning, but similar disposables like plastic forks and spoons didn’t?

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A nine year old girl say a photo of a turtle with a straw stuck in its nose, and wrote a paper about how bad it is that plastic straws end up in the ocean.

Somehow it went viral, and bada bing bada boom, cities are outlawing straws.

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