Skip the Straw Campaign ‘Every bit of plastic that has ever been made is still lying on this planet. “ Single- use plastic items have invaded our everyday lives - items that we use for less than a minute but will remain in the environment forever polluting it. The seemingly harmless plastic straw is one of them. We use it mindlessly and throw it, without questioning w hat happens to them after we discard them. The answer is simple. It either goes into some drain, choking it or it will end up at the landfill along with thousands of other straws and plastic items and remain there forever. In most clean up drives, plastic straws are the most found littered items. They have also been found in the stomachs of marine creatures. International Straw Free Day is observed to make people aware of the plastic pollution by asking them to ditch the use of plastic straws in their lives. More than a necessity, straws are a habit, which we can easily mend. We can begin by refusing straws in