Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses.

每天美国人都要扔掉5亿根塑料吸管，足以绕地球两圈，或者装满125辆校车。

Made from fossil fuels, they are almost never recycled because they're too small and could be made from several different types of plastic. They simply contribute to the massive problem of plastic pollution; eight million tons of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year.

用化石燃料制成的塑料吸管几乎从来不会被回收利用，因为它们体积太小，而且可能是由好几种不同类型的塑料制成的。这些吸管直接加剧了塑料污染的严重问题，每年都会有800万吨塑料被倾倒进海洋中。

小小的塑料吸管竟然会造成棘手的环境问题，很多成人可能都没有意识到，但是美国一个9岁的小孩却意识到了，还发起了第一场反吸管运动，让塑料吸管成为可选项。

Plastic straws are now the target of a growing movement to reduce their use. Possibly the first of such campaigns, Be Straw Free was started in 2011 by Milo Cress, who was only nine years old at the time. "I noticed that whenever I ordered a drink at a restaurant, it would usually come with a straw in it, and I don't usually need a straw," he said.

现在以减少塑料吸管使用量为目标的运动越来越多。“不用吸管”可能是第一场这样的运动，该运动在2011年由年仅9岁的米罗•克雷斯发起。克雷斯说：“我注意到，无论何时我在餐厅点饮料，杯子里总会有吸管，而我一般不需要吸管。”

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