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Can anyone explain the ban of plastic straws thing?
Posted on 3/11/19 at 9:56 am
Posted on 3/11/19 at 9:56 am
Seriously... what does banning plastic straws do? I remember paper straws; are those racist or whatever... as well?
Posted on 3/11/19 at 9:57 am to cajunangelle
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This post was edited on 11/17/21 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 3/11/19 at 9:57 am to cajunangelle
They think is a solution to cut down on the intake of nose candy.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 9:59 am to cajunangelle
If that straw got stuck in a loggerhead turtle's nose, do you have any idea what that would do to our ecosystem?
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:00 am to cajunangelle
Virtue signaling...just like every other leftist planetary emergency.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:01 am to cajunangelle
Supposedly bad for the environment?
This kind of shite is just a bunch of big government socialists testing the waters on what they can get away with.
This kind of shite is just a bunch of big government socialists testing the waters on what they can get away with.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:01 am to cajunangelle
THE TURTLES YOU frickING MONSTER!!!
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:03 am to cajunangelle
cuz straws suck
This post was edited on 3/11/19 at 10:05 am
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:04 am to Bunyan
Holy crap they say 'they flow into the ocean" So does bird poop and my jewelry when a big wave gets me, ban bird poop and jewelry. This would put the metal detector guys on all beaches out of bidness.
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At the beginning of July 2018, Seattle became the largest U.S. city to ban plastic straws.
They’re not alone.
Starbucks plans to phase out plastic straws by 2020. McDonald’s recently announced it will ban plastic straws at its U.K. and Ireland restaurants. Bon Appétit Management, a food service company with 1,000 U.S. locations, announced last May it will phase out plastic straws. Alaska Airlines will be one of the first airlines to phase out plastic straws and stirrers, in part thanks to an environmentally conscious girl scout.
These groups are responding to public outcry demanding action against a product that, on one hand, seems very simple—but which is harming the world’s oceans, experts warn.
In just the U.S. alone, one estimate suggests 500 million straws are used every single day. One study published earlier this year estimated as many as 8.3 billion plastic straws pollute the world's beaches.
Eight million tons of plastic flow into the ocean every year, and straws comprise just 0.025 percent of that.
But that hasn't stopped the straw from becoming the major focus of recent environmental campaigns. This is in part because, for most able-bodied people, the straw is something you can easily do without. Eliminating plastic straw usage rarely requires a drastic change in behavior.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:05 am to Corn Rub
What are the odds of a turtle swimming into a straw to shove it up it's nose? I think he was doin blow.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:07 am to cajunangelle
None of this will stop the third world countries trashing up the earth. Go after them first
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:12 am to Nado Jenkins83
I laugh when I go to parts of California once a month for work. I can't get a straw but then I sit in 3 hour traffic with 3 million others pumping out fumes.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:36 am to cajunangelle
Ban India and Asia. Watch the plastic problem cease to exist.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 10:40 am to LasVegasTiger
Their Prius runs on farts baw
Posted on 3/11/19 at 11:22 am to cajunangelle
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Can anyone explain the ban of plastic straws thing?
It makes them feel better.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 11:31 am to cajunangelle
It's just an example of government overreach where it's not needed and creatives an unnecessary division in people for a cause that should be pretty unified.
Yes, we should be looking at ways to reduce single use plastics as much as possible (packaging, plastic utensils, plastic shopping bags, etc) just because there are alternatives and a lot of it isn't needed.
I was in Paris where plastic shopping bags, plastic straws, plastic cutlery, etc. isn't used and barely even noticed it in my day to day routine.
But outright banning it (very abruptly, too) and then acting as if anyone who questions the ban are some earth hating, anti science, monster leads to how it's currently viewed today. It leads to the whole thing being a mockery and becoming a partisan issue.
Blaming people in the middle of the US, which has really strong, complex, and strict sanitation and waste disposal services, for plastic ending up in oceans is laughable.
Yes, we should be looking at ways to reduce single use plastics as much as possible (packaging, plastic utensils, plastic shopping bags, etc) just because there are alternatives and a lot of it isn't needed.
I was in Paris where plastic shopping bags, plastic straws, plastic cutlery, etc. isn't used and barely even noticed it in my day to day routine.
But outright banning it (very abruptly, too) and then acting as if anyone who questions the ban are some earth hating, anti science, monster leads to how it's currently viewed today. It leads to the whole thing being a mockery and becoming a partisan issue.
Blaming people in the middle of the US, which has really strong, complex, and strict sanitation and waste disposal services, for plastic ending up in oceans is laughable.
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