Obviously I implicitly meant all single use plastics. But random people littering is not even remotely the main source.

Poor and unregulated waste management is. Of course the fact that a lot of western countries were and still are exporting their plastic waste to poorer countries where they somehow end up in rivers and oceans.

However there is no inherent reason why plastic straws or anything else inherently have to be dumped into oceans.

Of course silly token measures are much easier than actually regulating the global fishing industry..

> Obviously I implicitly meant all single use plastics.

On a thread that is about someone misrepresenting a single-use plastic ban as a "plastic straw ban", this is very much not obvious at all.

As for the rest: if there is no plastic, then there is nothing to "waste manage". Or at least less, and mismanaged waste actually breaks down in a reasonable timeframe. It's been an issue for decades. Everyone knows about it. Nothing really changed.