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#1: Carol Brand (KarylAnn) on Sep 24, 2019 [SPOILER]

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I hate biodegradeable straws!

Jota - better get used to biodegradeable straws! There is now a $1,000 fine for waiters/waitresses who give a straw to a customer without first being asked. (That's what I've read but I am having a hard time believing it.)

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A terrific image ... I would love this for my dessert. Do you deliver?

I truly don't understand the debate about plastic straws when people buy plastic water bottles by the thousands, they trash the landscape and fill the dumpsites, they're completely unnecessary since the invention of water fountains, and people are ignoring them and and picking on tiny little straws!

The straw debacle is security theater, pure and simple. It does very, very little to affect pollution of our oceans, and it's more of a hassle for everyone involved, but it makes people *feel* good, and think they're doing something meaningful for the environment. I suppose it's a start.

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Any trash is bad if you throw it in the ocean. Straws are no worse than any other trash if they're thrown away properly.

Jim Leape, co-director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions: Plastic straws are only a tiny fraction of the problem – less than 1 percent. The risk is that banning straws may confer “moral license” – allowing companies and their customers to feel they have done their part. The crucial challenge is to ensure that these bans are just a first step, offering a natural place to start with “low-hanging fruit” so long as it’s part of a much more fundamental shift away from single-use plastics across the value chains of these companies and our economy.

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