People Make It So Hard to Ditch Plastic Straws
Bars and restaurants that switched to reusable metal ones learned about the downsides.
Not the best solution.
Photographer: tonaquatic/iStockphotoRarely has a minor consumer product received more vilification than the plastic straw. As a symbol of human wastefulness and our careless disregard for the environment, straws are the near-perfect villain. You use a plastic straw once and toss it, but it stays with us forever, sitting in a landfill, floating in the sea or harming wildlife.
That's why some local governments like that of New York City have stopped allowing them, along with other single-use plastics. This seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do, even though plastic straws comprise only a small part of the total volume of plastic disposed of each year.
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