It seems the straw ban has again gained momentum. The push seems to be for paper straws. The leader in paper straw manufacturing is Aardvark Straws out of Indiana. Aardvark also praises Lonely Whale out of Washington.
Secretary of State business searches in IN and WA come up empty for either of these businesses. Campaign contribution searches come up empty as well.
Thoughts? Also, anyone know of another way to find the real company names?
>look up straw ban
>it's real
KT-level extinction event when?
Seattle already has a law banning them
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I literally hate seattle, it needs to be its own county at this point to stop screwing over the surrounding cities and other counties that want nothing to do with the communist bull shit that the city council is constantly shoving out
To be fair, I don't really like plastic straws. Something about them throws up my Jonesdar
lol, maybe so. I don't care for them either, I'm fine without them. I just wonder if something more insidious is afoot?
they should be banning hypodermic needles rather than straws.
You guys need to clamp down on it before it gets to Chicago tier levels of controlling the entire state.
Yeah they're taking away my right to feel like I'm sucking a cock in public
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i'm more interested in the companies than the ban
anyone ever see that video of the sea turtle with the straw caught in its nose? So sad :(
HAIL MADIGAN
Is there anything wrong with paper straws? I assume they are wax or polymer coated to make them waterproof.
They get soggy after a while, but they still work. Up side is they don’t float around the ecosystem for years.
from what i read they're "biodegradable" but have yet to find how they're made.
also something curious; the BBC said they throw away 8.5 billion straws a year.
NBC says we use 500 million a YEAR.
they've both been debunked and concede that there has never been a study done.
something fishy going on.
How long is a while?
Also, I rarely use straws aside from restaurants/fast food so I've never tried them, but stainless steel straws seem nice for home use.
Well all you have to do to get a rough number is look at how many plastic straws are sold annually.
Virtually all of them will be thrown into the trash within a few hours of use. Some will be recycled but I imagine most of them wind up in dumps.
>straw ban
lol
we just got a plastic bag ban in perth, australia.
now the shopping bags i used to use for my rubbish have to be bought from the store as actual rubbish bags.
they charge you 15c per reusable shopping bag at the checkout now.
i still need to put my rubbish in bags, now i just have to pay for them.
no fewer plastic bags will end up in landfill because of this, just thicker plastic bags will replace the thinner ones that get left lying around.
how to get accurate sales figures, though?
this is the supporting report the EU cites:
seas-at-risk.org
"In the first case, a search was made for data relating to consumption of on the go items; where this was not available, the search then targeted single use items, before moving on to general consumption figures for the items, and finally to production figures."
>and finally to production figures.
isn't that really the only figure you would need?
exactly. who benefits? where does the money go?
Goodbye soi latte
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>now the shopping bags i used to use for my rubbish have to be bought from the store as actual rubbish bags.
same her in the UK. old plastic shopping bags were handy to have to store things in or move items around in, or just use as trash bags. as you say, now we buy separate bags for this as the need is still there. another dumb idea from government to look like they are doing something.
It's fucking retarded. Hurr durr one use plastic shopping bags. Fuck you they get used to store shit. I dont think I've ever thrown out a shopping bag after one use. They usually go into smaller bins as liners
ooo the plastic straw conspiracy. you retards see jesus in toast too i bet
Just gonna leave this right here.
>more behind it
easy token virtue signalling. There's no big conspiracy behind it, like there is with s o i or changing demographics with immigrants
plastic IS bad. bad for us, makes bad waste. It's also stupid cheap and ideal in a lot of conventional ways.
Banning certain identifiable plastics like straws makes it look like you're doing something, in the most obtuse and freedom-crushing way possible, while not actually changing anything.
Like 90% of all other good-intentioned bullshit in the world.
Things like cheap plastic straws were created by technology. And technology can solve the problem.
BAN ASSAULT STRAWS
It's not really about banning straws, it's a test of compliance. If they tried this a generation ago they would have been screamed down. Today everyone is nice and compliant and goes along with this despite knowing that banning plastic straws will achieve nothing in the whole scheme of things.
Next time you are in traffic make a note of how much time you needlessly have to waste due to red turn arrows when there is no traffic around. This is a new phenomenon, they are spreading like a virus and it's not necessarily about safety, it's about making people compliant and forcing them to do things that they know are stupid.
It's like how they break horses.
make straws out of food
fucking morons