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This article strikes me as severely biased. The article praises Cress as an "activist", and nowhere does it mention that his entire movement is based on a fraudulent statistic he got from random people working at plastic manufacturers when he was 9 years old. Cress has literally admitted that he uses this figure purely for shock value: "Why I use this statistic is because it illustrates that we use too many straws." (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/18/anti-straw-movement-based-unverified-statistic-500-million-day/750563002/) Also, nowhere in this article is it mentioned that this is a classic example of individualization of responsibility, pretending the environmental crisis is more a result of people's small conveniences than of the massive wastefulness of corporations.
Edit: it also strikes me as incredibly ingenuous to start "years active" literally the year Cress was BORN. I don't think he was advocating for plastic straw bans as a literal infant.
