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re: Jeff Landry makes great point about plastic straws
Posted on 6/14/19 at 6:19 pm to Lsujacket66
Posted on 6/14/19 at 6:19 pm to Lsujacket66
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Plastic straw = 0.42 grams. Plastic cup averages between 350 and 480 grams.
hmmm. 480g is more than 1 pound! You must have a typo there.
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Posted on 6/14/19 at 6:20 pm to Lsujacket66
The world doesn't have a plastic problem. Asia has a waste management problem.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 6:32 pm to Lsujacket66
Unless you physically go throw a straw in a river or the gulf, the odds of a plastic straw from Louisiana ending up in the ocean is almost zero.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 8:16 pm to jrodLSUke
Looks like he has had a lot of practice...
Posted on 6/14/19 at 8:25 pm to Lsujacket66
The real problem is trashy people throwing them on the ground or out the car window. If they are properly put away in trash cans they don't end up where they can do any harm.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:43 pm to jeffsdad
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the rural areas of China and India dump huge truckloads of trash into their rivers every 30 seconds..
This^.... Got take it up with them, they the ones causing the crap.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:46 pm to HonoraryCoonass
Im in Bali and they have eliminated plastic straws. A lot of options out there. USA can do it. plastic pollution is an actual problem that can easily be solved
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:48 pm to Lsujacket66
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I really am tired of the stupidity!
You should probably avoid this board then.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:56 pm to Lsujacket66
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Plastic straw = 0.42 grams. Plastic cup averages between 350 and 480 grams.
I mostly get paper cups
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:59 pm to HonoraryCoonass
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It’s not about the weight. They want to ban straws because they say wildlife are ingesting the long, narrow straws.
Darwinism at work though...
Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:17 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:And also consider that plastic is a WASTE product from oil production.
I'd like to see a visual illustration of how much compacted landfill space every plastic straw ever produced would take up. I have to think it is all but completely negligible and insignificant in the grand scheme of everything.
If it's not used for making straws, cups, bags, etc it will... inevitably... end up in a landfill just as it does now.
Only it'll get there having had no useful purpose.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 3:44 pm to Lsujacket66
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Plastic cup averages between 350 and 480 grams.
Calling bullshite on this. 1 pound = 454 grams...
Never had a plastic cup anywhere near 1 lb.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:04 pm to TigerAxeOK
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Paper causes them to have to cut down more trees.
smh. paper cups and straws will do just fine.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:50 pm to Lsujacket66
I literally weighed a plastic cup earlier today. It weighed 10 grams. 350 grams might be a yeti cup.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:55 pm to Lsujacket66
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Plastic straw
I want these to go away
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