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It's like walking home from work, seeing a house in flames, peeing into the fire and going home thinking "Today I did good".
by konschubert 8y ago
It's like walking home from work, seeing a house in flames, peeing into the fire and going home thinking "Today I did good".
- thinkingemote 8y agoAlmost - I think it's like driving home from work, hearing about a house on fire on the radio news, then, when you get home, you pee and think "I'm doing my bit contributing to the water supply for the fire fighters."
- econochoice 8y agoThis is closer, but I think the best analogy for this is hearing about the fire, deciding to never buy matches again and thinking that you're doing your part in preventing house fires.
- the_gastropod 8y agoC'mooooon. Are plastic straws the biggest problem facing the planet? No. But they do account for ~3% of the plastic in our oceans. Doing something here is absolutely better than doing nothing. As Churchill said: "Perfection is the Enemy of Progress". This is definitely progress.
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- stephengillie 8y ago>But they do account for ~3% of the plastic in our oceans. Source?
- the_gastropod 8y agohttps://get-green-now.com/environmental-impact-plastic-straws/ https://get-green-now.com/environmental-impact-plastic-straw... >And, as of early 2018, data from Ocean Conservancy’s TIDES system shows us that straws/stirrers are the 11th most found ocean trash in cleanups, making up about 3% of recovered trash. Recovered trash is maybe be different than total trash?!
- mhb 8y ago0.022% ...all those billions of straws add up to only about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that yearly hits the waters. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-science-amount-straws-plastic-pollution.html https://phys.org/news/2018-04-science-amount-straws-plastic-...