What kid doesn?t love straws" They are fun and bendy and make it easier to drink from a cup. But they can also be incredibly destructive. Straws can hurt wildlife and fill up our landfills, which, in turn, can be detrimental to our health. This is a big problem because we use a lot of plastic straws in North America?the numbers are staggering.
 An estimated 57 million straws are thrown away every day in Canada (with an estimated 500 million in the US each day). It?s almost unimaginable. Many of those straws end up in our waterways, where they can hurt seabirds, sea turtles, fish, marine mammals and shellfish. This viral video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nostril is just one upsetting example of the damage that straws can do. (Warning: This video may disturb viewers and contains adult language.) Megan Leslie is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada). She also served two terms as an MP for Halifax and is the former environment critic for the NDP (she introduced the motion to have microbeads added to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act?s List of Toxic Substances). It?s safe to say that she pays close attention to plastic and its effects on the environment.
 ?We?ve seen fish who have starved to death because they?re so full of plastic that they?re not hungry so they don?t eat or they can?t fit any food in,? she explains. ?And there are quite a few experts who predict that 99 percent of all seabirds will be eating plastic by 2...