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1 posted on 01/04/2015 2:28:42 PM PST by RBStealth
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What about the paper straws we all used as kids?


2 posted on 01/04/2015 2:34:59 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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3 posted on 01/04/2015 2:35:28 PM PST by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns, and kneeling at the feet of Mary)
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Yeah. Riiiiiiight!
I’m a denier, but I carefully separate my trash. I suspect it all goes to the same landfill anyway!


4 posted on 01/04/2015 2:36:01 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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Instead of glass straws, with with Osama “voters” will injure themselves, and subsequently sue, if plastic straws are that evil, why not just ban straws altogether and make people drink with their face.


7 posted on 01/04/2015 2:36:33 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Clarice Feldman over at American Thinker declared 2014 to be the “Year of Peak Stupidity.” Seems 2015 is off to a great start, however.

Glass straws...let the lawsuits begin. Lawyers the world over are salivating over that invention.


8 posted on 01/04/2015 2:37:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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I always liked the way glass bottle parts would decorate the beaches in the carribean (st. Vincent) It seemed appropriate for the glass to slowly be ground back near it’s original home.


9 posted on 01/04/2015 2:41:11 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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Why not have thick plastic straws? If the point is to reuse them it’d be cheaper than glass and longer shelf life. Also not likely to be broken and injure someone.

Environmentalists... Always looming for a half added solution to a minor problem.


12 posted on 01/04/2015 2:44:30 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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how in the world did humanity survive before the invention of the straw? wasn’t it impossible to drink?


13 posted on 01/04/2015 2:45:01 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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Aren’t glass straws used to smoke crack? Remember when McDonald’s had to redesign their plastic coffee spoons because addicts were using them to cook heroin?


14 posted on 01/04/2015 2:46:50 PM PST by rabidralph
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Surfers go stuff it up your backside!!!


15 posted on 01/04/2015 2:47:48 PM PST by dalereed
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I deal in antiques and old stuff.

I once came upon a box of old medical items. One was a box of what looked like glass straws. They were glass catheters.... the edges were not smooth.

OUCH..


19 posted on 01/04/2015 2:51:19 PM PST by katnip (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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Paper or Plastic? Kill a tree or choke a fish? Ho and Hum!


21 posted on 01/04/2015 2:51:52 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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In the Los Angeles area alone 10 metric tons of plastic fragments—like grocery bags, straws and bottles—are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day.

BS.

I goggled that line and it appears to be another "factoid" that the left likes to use, w/o any source to justify it, just like the "97% of scientists agree that man is causing global warming".

25 posted on 01/04/2015 2:54:06 PM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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Corn-based plastics are biodegradable but are more expensive than petroleum based plastics.


26 posted on 01/04/2015 2:56:02 PM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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I remember when straws were made of paper, sacks also. Then came the movement to save the trees...


29 posted on 01/04/2015 3:01:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Glass.

Straws.

Actually, glass straws SHOULD be a law.

But only for liberals.

Then I can smash the head of every glass-straw user I see, into the table.

They will have a 10% chance of surviving the glass shard removal surgery.


30 posted on 01/04/2015 3:03:17 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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“Billions of pounds of plastic can be found on our beaches and in the oceans”

Sounds like a resource to exploit- if we can collect it and recycle it, imagine how much oil we could save!

A series of floating Eco-cities seining plastic from the oceans, making it into useful polymer again, inhabited by Eco-conscious activists (who would be out of our hair for a while).


32 posted on 01/04/2015 3:08:40 PM PST by DBrow
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There were no plastic grocery bags till the tree hugging environmentalist demanded plastic ones to save the forest.

The renewable, biodegradable paper grocery bag was one of the 1st victims of liberal political correctness.

33 posted on 01/04/2015 3:13:14 PM PST by TexasCajun
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more leftist insanity


43 posted on 01/04/2015 3:35:42 PM PST by GeronL
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Green idiot paper straws work just fine so if you have a problem with plastic coated paper....

Ive been to Bali.. they do some odd things.. like sell gasoline in recycled Absolut vodka bottles... you see them at ever store.. seem absolute vodka bottles are perfect 1 liter.. just right for all those little motor scooters you see everywhere also... but why absolute vodka bottles I have no idea


44 posted on 01/04/2015 3:38:00 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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