The efforts against plastic straws have already started for McDonalds, Marriott and Starbucks who all vow to end the use of plastic straws in their businesses. In Sweden, McDonalds aims to  exchange all plastic straws to alternatives made of paper by the end of September this year.

Marriott is next in line and strives to get rid of all plastic straws at their 6 500 hotels worldwide, a process they estimate will take about a year and save up to a billion straws yearly.  Starbucks is also on their way to eliminating plastic straws from all their cold drinks. The goal is to get rid of all plastic straws from their 28 000 coffee shops globally by the year of 2020. As the cold drinks they serve adds up to over 50 percent of their sold drinks the coffee company sees the issue with plastic consumption and the importance of finding a more sustainable solution.

Plastic pollution has become a hot topic around the world and banning plastic straws has been on the agenda for recent awareness campaigns around the world.  Even though Denmark uses far less straws than other European countries there is still being thrown away over 1 billion straws in Denmark yearly according to the Standard. Therefore a ban of plastic straws, as the EU is planning, would be a warmly welcomed initiative for a more sustainable future.