The definitive answer to this growing problem is hemp. Hemp is easy to grow, requires very little care as it is actually a weed grows fast, can be made into thousands of products, and when made into plastic, is biodegradable in as little as ninety days into fertilizer. It has been used for thousands of years and was recently (this year) made legal to grow again in the U.S.

My city recently had a plastic straw ban on the ballot. Sadly, it failed. It would have been one little step in the right direction. I think, unfortunately, things won't change until the old rich white dudes running everything die off. The McConnells, the Inhofes, the Trumps, etc...

We are buried in an avalanche of critical issues threatening our existence and our government has, especially now, its head in the sand over all of them. Anybody that cares about the continued existence of our planet needs to take action in 2020 to turn this nonsense around. I hope there is some sort of light at the end of this dark tunnel.