Ocean plastic coming from straws is 0.03% of all plastic in the ocean. 46% of the Pacific garbage patch is fishing nets.

The rules of our society are dictated by corporations and money. We're enabling those corporation with our purchasing habits.

Btw, paper straws are not that much better, neither for us or the environment (they're coated with PFAS).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00456...

At the end of the day, people need to change their habits and consume less (or differently - i.e. paper straws [1]) and the government needs to regulate companies and their pollution - which means we need to vote. If you aren’t willing to change your personal habits, or if you think it’s hopeless, you’re just going to never see change. You don’t have to wait until private jet flights are banned to take action.

[1] I really don’t get the paper straw thing. They’re fine today and they’re going to improve over time.

> I have tried to change as many habits as I can to lower my footprint

That may be good to your conscience, but you realise that you have not tackled the problem at all, do you?

If you really want to have an impact, try and achieve a concrete result: for example, help someone relocate from India to Canada!