We have an outreach program where we go out in the community and do cleanups on the coastline or at the mouths of rivers. The majority of what we see—the top items—are a lot of the items that you just said you can't remember the last time you used them. These items are being used and then somehow making their way to being some of the top items that we see in nature.
I agree with you one hundred per cent about the three Rs and the hierarchy. I think that there are products that we wouldn't need to replace. We could just reduce them and have people get used to this idea that they don't need them.
Of course there are situations where there is a need for a straw, but you only have them when there's a need and you're still reducing a large amount of what we use. I completely agree with you. I think by reducing a lot of those materials we could clean up a lot of the litter we see on our coastlines.