Plastic Straw Ban

For

environmental

200 years to decompose

gets into your body via water-supply, air,

marine ecosystem

sea turtles and trash islandsby 2050 90% of sea birds will have ingested plastic

PLA straws

made from cornstarch and sugar

stainless steel straws

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disadvantages of substitutes

metal straws

hard to cleaninconvenient to carrywastes a lot of energy to produce it

glass straws

can break and be ingested

papers straws

also not recyclablemade with wax and paper pulpcuts down more trees - amazonwill get chewed up

plastic tops

even more plastic, 7-11, --- even more plastic

not that important

only makes up 4% of plastic pollution

unlikely to have a big impact

only 0.03 percent of marine pollution

advantages of plastic straws

help the elderly and disabled drink

some people cant use metal or glass straws because they might bite and them and chew them and hurt themselvesallergic to silicone strawwaste more

other alternatives could harm local businesses

the other straws are too expensive

cheaper

average use of 1.6 a day per person in the WORLD, that adds up. The pollution is only 4%. The cost of alternatives will have a bad impact.

more efficient than paper

you would have to reuse an alternative an crazy number of times to actually reach the same efficiency as plastic

what we really need

education

other plastics

cups and bags also get stuck in animals

recycling is more important than banning

virtue signalling

its just a media stunt

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