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>Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant but leads to positive sentiments around environmentalism for environmentalists Which is all you really nee
by qball 2y ago
>Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant but leads to positive sentiments around environmentalism for environmentalists
Which is all you really need to know about why they did it.
The vast majority of people dispose of their trash correctly, and if you're worried about your own plastic waste ending up dumped into the Pacific via third-world recycling then doing it on-continent would result in cleaning up more than just straws.
- aeternum 2y agoInteresting, yeah thinking more about this it probably applies to recycling also. Separating your plastics is mostly useless as they just get shipped to third world countries where they are mostly dumped or burned. But that act of sorting and shaming others for not doing it definitely makes a certain subset of people feel better about themselves.