Ngl, paper straws are dumb af. Big oil will get their plastic made with or without straws.
McDonald’s went from paper cups and plastic straws to plastic cups and paper straws. A net loss for the environment.
Plastic straws are unequivocally better.
Obligatory fuck trump.
Over here you have paper cups and paper straws. Shit spills every time you take it out / get it delivered.
We’re all such buffoons. McD’s in my area changed to an all plastic cup with a flip-open top so we wouldn’t need straws (so we can waste more plastic?!?!?) but for some fucked reason still always hands a plastic straw with the drink anyway, and hasn’t changed back to paper cups, presumably because people complained.
Fuck off, humanity.
Diamond Straws currently employs 15 people but is anticipating an uptick in business in the wake of President Trump’s executive order declaring that the US is “going back to plastic straws” and moving away from paper straws.
You could one day aspire to be the 16th factory worker in the plastic straw factory. Unless, of course, those jobs are automated away by AI.
I dunno why, but this guy actually looks as if he was a plastic straw maker.
If the cups aren’t plastic they’re unrecyclable paper amalgamations. Plastic bags were recyclable but now we have reusable ones that aren’t. Or both. Same for straws. They gave up after a year or so around here.
Its was never about being recyclable. Its about microplastics that form when it starts to decompose.
It was never about consumer behavior, just another front in the culture war while the people who could actually do something about pollution hide behind endless discussions about straws.
He doesn’t ‘think plastic straws are gonna affect sharks much as they’re munching their way through the ocean’. You seriously cannot reason with someone who thinks like him. He could be the poster child for how a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, seriously.
