Plastics and Stainless Straws are Just as Bad

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Plastic, stainless straws are just as bad.

Humans again produce energy with some food intake that enters the body. The food is in the form of protein, nutrition, and other types of vitamins and some of it. Everything is then digested by the body with the help of water.

Water plays an important role in every body system that works. Whether it the hormone system, digestive system, cardiovascular system, and others.

No wonder water plays an important role in the processes that revolve in the human body. For example, just imagine if there is no water, then nothing can help dissolve other nutrients, neutralize toxins that enter the body and help the digestion of food.

When we talk about food could intake that enters the body, the endless health that we always pay attention to too. For example, when the weather is uncertain, sometimes it is hot and suddenly it rains or vice versa, with identic soupy and spicy food balanced with cold drinks sometimes makes the throat feel relieved.

But if we talk about health, does this case allow it to be good enough for the body? In fact this will make things worse. Plus in other cases, types of soft drinks and fast food are often the people's choice.

Even those are accustomed to using straws as a dependency rather than sipping drinks directly from the glass. Are examples of this case good enough for the body? Literally, fast food contains many preservatives and soft drinks are types of drinks that are certainly dangerous to health

Like one of them can harm the kidneys or increase the risk of diabetes. Likewise with straws that are not necessarily made well enough for health too.

This soupy, spicy, and cold drink turned out to be what everyone loved; ladies and gentlemen, and even teenagers. And within cheap prices and crowded visitors. Not even the slightest they think to pay attention to the level of cleanliness that occurs in these foods. 

Starting from the process of making food, the process of flies that land on their food, the process of washing objects used for customers, or the use of plastic straws which they also often ignore, are served for their use.

Besides that, in the example of the second case that happened exactly in the community, they liked to snack on fast food and chose soft drinks. Though it was clear the food was as bad as food that flies infested with. These foods can damage the function of some parts of the body.

And also when plastic straws that customers use to help the process of swallowing food have been innovated replacing them with stainless straws, but this is just as bad when people use plastic straws. Why does this happen? There are two things that make plastic straws and stainless straws just as bad. In terms of worsening health and worsening the environment.

First, it's not just plastic straws that make health worse. It turns out that, stainless straws too. Basically, most disposable plastic straws are made of polypropylene, a type of plastic made from petroleum.

The material is actually considered safe by the Food and Drug Administration. However, this material can be absorbed into the liquid and can release compounds that affect estrogen levels, especially when exposed to heat, acidic beverages or UV light.

Thus, this material can cause a number of long-term health problems, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and others. While stainless straws, these straws are actually the same as the spoon and or fork that we use at home stainless steel material.

So there is no period of time how important it must be in a hygienic state. This is the beginning of the problem, if someone does not wash this stainless straw thoroughly it will be able to disrupt the digestive tract because there are many bacteria that enter the human body.

So it is very necessary to pay attention to the problem of cleanliness in the process of washing stainless in straws even though this straw is said to be better than plastic straws, but it would be the same meaning if not paying attention to it thoroughly.

Second, environmental problems. In Indonesia, the estimated use of plastic straws reaches 93,244,847 stems per day. Naturally, these plastic straws cannot be recycled and it takes around 200 years for these plastic straws to break under normal environmental conditions. As a result, straws often scattered and ended up polluting the ocean.

And not just polluting the ocean, in fact this plastic straw can also endanger all living things that live in the ocean. One of them is the case of a turtle whose nose is pierced by a plastic straw 10 centimeters off the coast of Costa Rica. Another case in stainless straws. Instead of getting better, it turns out the process of making stainless straws have been problematic before use.

This straw is made from a mixture of iron, carbon, and chromium, which in its manufacture involves cutting down trees and digging the soil. Chemical processes also need to be carried out so that iron and chromium can be purified from other minerals.

Ex-mining pits are often left without responsibility from the perpetrators, until a dangerous lake is formed. This lake can be dangerous for children who live around it because they might slip and sink into the lake.

Not to mention if we talk about dangerous water content because it has been mixed with remnants of metal. Also another case in point is that this stainless straw makes the environment worse, the Citrum River in West Java is one of the most polluted rivers in Indonesia.

This is caused by factory waste that is around the river, including factories that produce iron straws that are often proud of its users. This waste certainly endangers the residents who access water in the river or public waterways on a daily basis.

In conclusion, swallowing food using a straw does facilitate the process. But do not be surprised if we also have to reduce the use of plastic straws and stainless straws. Based on several things that have been discussed, it turns out the manufacturing process is no better than we imagine.

Similarly, this type of straw will also worsen human health conditions. Instead, humans should be more aware to reduce their use. It would be better, if we drink it by sipping it from the glass directly instead of using tools that are clearly the use of this is not better for us. In fact, it is true that straws were created to help humans to facilitate the process of drinking or swallowing food.

The initiative, straw users will help the government overcome this problem by bringing its own tumblr bottles. This type of bottle is now also more varied by the public. They make variations that have straws or as usual. Thus, this type of bottle will also help.