The last straw - Zoe Matthiessen

Meet Sippy the plastic straw! Once celebrated and loved by all, now Sippy is used up, discarded, and floating in a puddle. Sad and confused, Sippy is blown around on a long journey.
Sippy, a plastic straw who was once so useful, one day gets thrown out and blown into the sea. Along his journey he meets a number of animals, each one struggling with some form of trash. There is the raccoon with a plastic six-pack ring around her neck, and the sea bird whose nest is made entirely of plastics. Sippy meets turtles who think grocery bags are food, and a hermit crab forced to live in a toothpaste cap. Then Sippy is eaten by a whale! This colorful story teaches children how to be champions of the environment, as well as the importance of reducing our use of plastics and recycling even the smallest plastic items.