There are rivers of straws in the ocean coming from China.
Nobody in the US takes their straws down to the beach and pitches it into the ocean. Its stupid.
It's impossible to throw away a straw. No one throws away a solo straw. A straw is part of a product. It is inserted through a lid into a cup. No one removes a straw, tosses it into the ocean and holds on to the cup and lid to throw it into a garbage can. If there's a straw in the ocean, the cup and lid is also there.