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Today is National Chocolate Chip Day! Chocolate bars used to be sold with a little chopping tool before chocolate chips were invented. Put some in your pancakes, cookies, and spaghetti! Okay, maybe not in your spaghetti. It’s also National Straw Hat Day! If you don’t have a straw hat to wear, just stick a straw in a hat!
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Over 8 million tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans every year. Recycling plastic helps, but countries and companies are looking for other solutions. Eliminating plastic packaging, banning plastic straws and bags, taxing single-use plastics, and changing the way people think are a start. See what plastics YOU can stop using!
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Today is National Drinking Straw Day, but modern plastic straws can harm the environment and wildlife. Paper straws were invented in 1888 by Marvin Stone. Ancient Sumerians were using gold straws to drink beer 5000 years ago! Argentinians use metal straws that end in sieves called bombillas. Invest in a steel or bamboo straw to celebrate!
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