Plastic straw isn't a problem. It's a movement to demonstrate how dependant we are on plastic, that even something trivial and mostly luxury & low impact item a

Plastic straw isn't a problem. It's a movement to demonstrate how dependant we are on plastic, that even something trivial and mostly luxury & low impact item as a plastic straw is hard to get rid of. Whole point of stopping plastic straws is not to reduce plastic waste, because it's negligible comparing to, say, plastic bags, but to start a conversation and rise awareness of what materials are used where and how they are recycled. Planet Money had excellent podcast with people who came up with whole "Ban Plastic Straw" idea. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630589386/how-the-campaign-to-ban-plastic-straws-got-its-start https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630589386/how-the-campaign-to...