Reminds me of the plastic soda rings that ended up destroying enormous amounts of sea life just by getting trapped around animals' necks and torsos.

Now we just use cardboard to hold beers, its functionally the same price, and the only thing filling up the oceans are the aluminum cans and the paper waste.

Banning plastic straws isn’t about climate change, it’s about litter and waste.

Climate change is also a consequence of our productivism and "waste", by burning fossile fuels. We create too much stuff, we consume too fast that Earth can't restore itself fast enough.

Banning plastic straws was common sense, but it's not enough.

Also, at least in the EU, the laws have not just banned public straws but also a bunch of other single-use, non-degradable items. Plastic cutlery, qtips, and takeout food containers were banned too or severely limited. And there've been a lot of improvements that incentivise reusable containers over throwaway ones too.

Drop in a bucket maybe but it's for like 0.001% of the population. Which is an insane number per capita at this scale. Magnitudes is one of the biggest things people miss when talking about emissions, one single billionaire pollutes more every single day than thousands average people.
Every single one of us has to make efforts to combat climate change but some a lot more than others.

Comparing fright and person transport seams a bittle apple to oranges. Emission per passenger-kilometer is the only sane way to compare person transport.
Fright should probably be separated into essenstials and luxury, but we all have our yearly footprint.

I thought we ended up learning that giant trucks delivering items door to door was actually greener than store chains since it stops millions of people driving around idling at stop lights constantly vs one truck delivering a shit ton of items.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/04/29/grocery-delivery-service-is-greener-than-driving-to-the-store/

not their brightest idea, do they really think they will live forever in their bunker?

Yes, well microplastics, but primarily because straws are relatively small and often ended up in nature, causing direct damage to animals both on land and in water.

It was all because of that turtle video

Single use plastics and ocean garbage patch

Yes, it's not about climate change and it really annoys me when people lump them together without remotely using their brains. Not all environmentalism is about fighting climate change. The rationale behind banning plastic straws is the same for banning plastic bags and those plastic 6 pack holders. They get all over the place, are hard to contain in landfills, kill wildlife, spread microplastics, don't decompose, etc, etc. It's not about emissions, which I'm sure it helps with too, but is nowhere near the primary reason to ban them. Saying it doesn't fight climate change is the dumbest argument because nobody was using that as a reason in the first place.

Started with litter. Same with plastic bags. The first countries that banned plastic bags were developing nations that didn't have strong... um. "litter awareness". Cultures that previous either used reusable natural fiber bags or something that biodegraded. The influx of plastic bags in those communities lead to tree branches being filled with plastic waste.

could be yes, I mean plastic is bad, but it's not enough compared to what's happening.

The big one is just that it fucking sucks to see plastic all over the ground, it utterly baffles me that people can oppose getting rid of trash in the streets!

80% of all microplastic are from tires

From here https://www.statista.com/chart/17318/share-of-countries-that-have-enacted-plastic-bans-restrictions-and-the-types-of-restrictions/

nah... a moat of fire.

win-win !

time for a lil' war then...

Well at least they're doing something about the problem

I'd prefer they make it better instead of worse, but hey, you get what you get.