> And, for what it's worth, people who complain about paper straws remind me of sulky toddlers. Just FYI. Banning plastic straws was a useless feel-good measur

> And, for what it's worth, people who complain about paper straws remind me of sulky toddlers. Just FYI. Banning plastic straws was a useless feel-good measure that raised costs and reduced quality of life (ever so slightly). It makes no difference to the ocean, as Western countries don't have rivers of trash flowing directly into it, and straws are an insignificant amount of plastic relative to everything else we use. So I'll complain readily about plastic straws because terrible legislation turns the majority center against the cause. We could have used that political capital and public support to make a real difference, but now we're worse off than where we started.