As of 2015, 322 million tons of plastic were produced globally.

As plastic production increases, so does its environmental impact, especially on the world's oceans. Plastic bars are an important part of this impact. Plastic bars are designed to be disposable; we use them for drinks and throw them away after one use. However, plastic bars are not recyclable and generate a lot of trash that ends up in landfills or in the oceans.

Large quantities of single-use plastics collect in "garbage belts," which are formed when trash and debris are pushed together by circular ocean currents called gyres. These belts are made up mostly of microplastics, which make the water cloudy and gelatinous.

A plastic bar can take up to 200 years to decompose. Plastic rods are not biodegradable; instead, they slowly break up into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic (also known as microplastics), which fish and marine animals mistake for food and ingest. It is estimated that as many as 71% of seabirds and 30% of sea turtles end up swallowing plastic in their stomachs.

In addition to killing marine life, a bigger reason why plastic is so dangerous is that it releases toxic chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) when it breaks down. Plastic rods are made from polypropylene, a petroleum byproduct that is essentially the same fuel used in our cars. As a result, when plastic bars begin to break down, they release harmful toxins like BPA that pollute our oceans.

Due to these negative effects, many industries around the world have begun banning plastic bars in favor of alternatives.

But according to the Ocean Conservancy's 2017 Coastal Cleanup Report, sticks and stirrers make up only 3 percent of the total trash on beaches. Globally, Bloomberg News estimates that sticks may only make up 0.03 percent of total plastic trash.

But that's not to say that reducing the use of plastic sticks is irrelevant. It's an important first step in dramatically limiting plastic pollution in the oceans, by psychologically incentivizing people to adopt similar behaviors.

Switching from single-use plastic sticks to paper sticks will certainly have a smaller impact on the environment. Here are the top 5 benefits of using paper sticks instead of plastic ones.

1. paper sticks are biodegradable
2. paper sticks take less time to decompose
3. switching to paper sticks will reduce the use of plastic rods
4. they are (relatively) affordable

5. they are safer for wildlife

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