re: Britain plans to ban plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds next year

So dumb.
These types of moves are just feel good.
Straws continue to be demonized when they represent a barely measurable amount of the plastic that enters the ocean.

The vast majority is fishing relating items like nets and consumer items like plastic bottles.
Most of this comes from rivers in Asia not in Britain or North America.

If they want to make a real change, eliminate plastic bottles. I would like to see them try that.