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Banning plastic straws may not directly reduce the plastic waste problem itself, but it HAS had a very high profile with almost all major media outlets talking
by Jaruzel 8y ago
Banning plastic straws may not directly reduce the plastic waste problem itself, but it HAS had a very high profile with almost all major media outlets talking about it.
Anything that keeps reminding people that we are destroying our home with use-once plastic is a good thing in my opinion. Today it's plastic straws and shopping bags, tomorrow hopefully it will be larger use-once plastic items and from there we may actually start making an impact.
- narag 8y agoAnything that keeps reminding people that we are destroying our home with use-once plastic is a good thing in my opinion. That's just another form of "ends justify means". One very odd, but it is.
- rbanffy 8y ago> all major media outlets talking about it. The issue is that, when it's (easily) demonstrated it's an exaggeration, the credibility of all major media outlets gets questioned, and rightly so.
- zepto 8y agoExcept that 50% of it is fishing nets, so this slow attrition won’t make an impact, even assuming people aren’t just fatigued after the straw issue.
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