Saturday's letters: Ban the single-use drinking straw

Which is more important? Drinking from a straw? Or saving our environment? I, for one, am all for the idea to place a ban on disposable straws.
Studies show that around 71 per cent of sea birds, and 30 per cent of turtles have attempted to digest plastic. An example of this is the poor sea turtle with a straw up its nose, as well as a young sperm whale, washed up on a beach, with 30 kilograms of plastic and straws in its stomach.
Single-use straws cannot be turned to paper because their fibres a