Posted on 11/19/2018 5:41:28 AM PST by NOBO2012
Breaking news: Washington D.C. sucks!
Fear not, local government has taken the matter into their own hands:
While Washington, D.C., is the nation’s 16th most dangerous city, has the highest rate of cocaine use and the 49th worst schools, the local government is right on top of its biggest problem: single use plastic straws. In fact, the municipality will now penalize not just businesses, but also churches and other non-profits, if they hand out plastic straws or stirrers with beverages — this includes with free coffee offered as charity. – The New American
As Selwyn Duke points out, the panic over single straw plastic waste pollution is not so much an American problem as it is a third world lack of waste management problem.
This romantic belief in the “butterfly flaps its wings halfway around the world…” theory is about as cogent as your mother’s argument for you eating your peas because there were children starving in China. Starving children did not benefit from this logic fallacy and the garbage in Delhi, Manila, Beijing and Port au Prince will not disappear if the church ladies in D.C. stop handing out plastic straws with the coffee. Nor will open borders in the U.S. address endemic poverty around the world. Of course that’s irrelevant when you’re more concerned with virtue signaling than actually fixing stuff.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
What about the energy, water, and chemicals used to wash the straws?
They will throw them away like they always have garbage they no longer need.
I never liked using straws and would typically never order a drink requiring one (like a shake for instance). I always saw the act of sucking from a straw as a feminine mannerism. If my drink is served with a straw, I’ll pull it out and drink right from the cup or glass it is served in.
“Cows and Horses Hardest Hit”
What about Mules? My Ithaca is reeling from this news, LOL!
“If my drink is served with a straw, I’ll pull it out and drink right from the cup or glass it is served in.”
But MORE importantly, what’s your stance on paper umbrellas and skewers of fruit or olives in cocktails? ;)
Which reminds me - what are all of the ‘tropical’ locals doing with all of those tiny drink umbrellas served in fruity, Rummy concoctions? (And WHY is the Rum gone?!?!)
Are THOSE waste-stream cloggers being given to homeless rats and cockroaches?
*SMIRK*
I saw a Shark Tank episode last night. Some idiotic true believers were on trying to shill a $20 stainless steel folding straw to save the earth.
Yea, I’m going to carry my own straw around with me.
They claimed that straws were the most common seaside pollution.
My wife and I recently walked 14 miles of Lake Michigan beach. Did not find a single straw and I looked the whole way.
They should make straws out of lead. It would help the dems get more voters by lowering the IQ of many people. They could be reused as fishing weights or melted down into 00 Buck for your personal use. If they do get thrown away they would sink and not be an eyesore.
Pretty soon...when everybody gets their own steel straw.......People will be getting murdered with them nd we will have to ban them. Great Idea....
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