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The plastic straw bans were about the structural rigidity and non biodegradable nature of the item causing trouble for animals when discarded. Similar to the c
by ZeroGravitas 1y ago
The plastic straw bans were about the structural rigidity and non biodegradable nature of the item causing trouble for animals when discarded.
Similar to the can ring holders that got banned previously for similar reasons.
It's telling that critics of the move needs to invent other reasons for it to fail at.
- pjmlp 1y agoIt is a fun exercise to seat at the beach and see everyone busy splitting caps from bottles. Sometimes it is better to improve education than draconian measures.
- ben_w 1y agoI remain fascinated how many people (not just you) describe something as minor as a materials or structure requirement of a minor sub-item of one of several different ways in which drinks are prepackaged into individual potions, with terms such as "draconic". It's not like people get the death penalty for littering, which would fit the etymology of the term. Still, language drifts.
- fragmede 1y agoIt's so fascinating when people so misunderstand human psychology that something that interferes with the point of a product (ie, drinking the liquid inside of the bottle) is seen as minor, relative to the use of the product. Still, importance is relative.
- ben_w 1y agoNone of these changes have interfered with my ability to drink directly from the bottle. Perhaps my mouth is unusally shaped?
- pjmlp 1y agoBecause this is throwing sand into people eyes, as we say back in Portugal. Easy measures to assert governments are doing something. Actually changing habits of whole populations, or doing real work changes the country infrastructure, access to transport for everyone, and green fuels and whatever, cost too much money, and possible votes, so what really matters isn't done, only the easy stuff, to assert something is being done.