Cities from Seattle to St. Petersburg are banning single-use plastics like plastic straws, utensils and stirrers to limit the amount of plastic waste in the oceans.
The Environment
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Scientists agree that climate change is a serious issue. At the current rate, temperatures could rise by 4 to 12 degrees by 2100. Rising temperatures affect agriculture, energy, water supplies, health, plants, animals, forests, recreation and ecosystems.
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Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Shielded from sunlight in landfills, they won’t decompose for hundreds of years. And the ocean is full of plastic graveyards. One of them, the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, is 80% plastic and weighs 3.5 million tons.