Environmental groups are celebrating efforts to ban what they say is an avalanche of plastic straws polluting the worlds oceans. Chain restaurants like Starbucks and McDonalds are phasing out plastics and U.S. cities like Seattle have banned them entirely. There are billions in the ocean already, but a group of volunteer trash collectors in Australia is trying to at least clean up a local cove. VOA's Kevin Enochs reports.
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