They are doing this so Gary sees no more turtles suffering from them

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/62722...plastic-straws
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...709-story.html
Though plastic drinking straws have become one of the more high-profile
issues environmentally, they make up only about 4% of the plastic trash
by number of pieces, and far less by weight. Straws add up to about
2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in
waters around the globe each year.