I don't think banning plastic straws has ever been intended as primarily about climate change. It's a response to micro-plastics as a water pollutant. I may be

I don't think banning plastic straws has ever been intended as primarily about climate change. It's a response to micro-plastics as a water pollutant. I may be wrong, but non-degrading plastics are actually a carbon sink, just often a carbon sink in the wrong place.