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If they're illegal to sell, then Amazon hasn't gotten the memo yet.
They aren't illegal to sell.
Manufacturers can't make them any longer, existing inventory is permitted to be sold off. So they can be found on amazon, ebay, and a bunch of other places still. Just won't see any new stock coming in, and places that have less stock (as in, not gigantic warehouses) haven't been getting new ones in for some time. Nearly a year now I believe.
The phrase the Lowe's associate used was "Illegal to have on store shelves."
I'm not sure you should have a Lowe's Associate as a legal advisor.
Here's Home Depot covering it
The relevant text:
I think you should.
oh, Amazon will gladly sell you illegal goods. and no one will stop them
Selling plastic straws is not permitted in the EU anymore, so I'm buying them on Amazon. Don't know whether these regulations apply only to physical stores or Amazon doesn't give a damn, but you can go around such laws quite easily.
Likely they don't care. Someone bought a bunch of cigarettes from Amazon.
For real? Because plastic straws, and not the bajillion tons of packaging materials are the bane of our existence. Right?
Don't know how the law is worded, but you won't find plastic straws in physical shops or restaurants, and all juice boxes come with paper straws. I don't have any issues buying plastic straws, both regular-size and for boxed juices, from Amazon.