Restaurant owners can save 2000‎៛ a month on straws?

There's suddenly a whole lot of environmentalists.

RickyBobby wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:52 am I don't get the plastic hysteria. So what it takes 400 years to degrade. What is it doing during that process. Is it leaching carcinogens? Is it making us sick?

I refuse bags whenever practical, mostly because the plastic is ending up in the lakes and rivers and also being burned. But in the western world, where is is being recycled or properly buried I don't understand how it is a problem.

not us, but the environment and wildlife...

I do agree with the problem of the plastic ending up in the water ways and affecting the wildlife. This is not from the west however. Western countries that are moralizing on the use of plastics are not fixing the root cause of the bulk of the problem.

RickyBobby wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:26 pm I do agree with the problem of the plastic ending up in the water ways and affecting the wildlife. This is not from the west however. Western countries that are moralizing on the use of plastics are not fixing the root cause of the bulk of the problem.

our bodies are full of plastic particles too
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/envi ... man-feces/

OK, Plastic Straws are nothing but .... TRASH !

So what will you do ? Or will you stay ignorant and trash the enviroment with more ?

Here is what some, mostly younger people already did. A perfect example ? Perhaps, but NOT TRASHING would be a real SOLUTION!

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/12/worl ... index.html

Let's follow Kamloops, Canada and ditch Plastic Bags

Kamloops This Week
MARCH 28, 2019 09:41 AM

As Kamloops council mulls plastics ban, farmers' market will be a plastic bag-free zone

Last year, the farmers’ market society board made the decision to ban single-use plastic shopping bags from the downtown markets beginning with the 2019 season

As Kamloops council prepares to meet next week and debate whether to ban single-use plastic bags, cutlery and straws, directors of the Kamloops Regional Farmers' Market Society are reminding residents of a plastics ban coming to the downtown markets this year.

Last year, the farmers’ market society board made the decision to ban single-use plastic shopping bags from the downtown markets beginning with the 2019 season.

This change will commence with our first Saturday market, on April 20, in the 200-block of St. Paul Street and the first Wednesday market, on May 1, in the 400-block of Victoria Street.

“We felt that the market could set an example in reducing the use of plastic in our city,” said board member Anne Grube.

“We have therefore asked all our vendors to refrain from handing out plastic shopping bags. Smaller bags containing loose vegetables and berries, etc., will still be allowed, although a volunteer group will be attending the market with homemade mesh bags that could be used for these items.

“For years, many of our regular customers have been bringing reusable shopping bags with them each week. We also sell heavy cotton bags at our information table.”

the simple fact that the world population is growing and people who a few years ago had nothing are now on facebook every day and plastic is everywhere sure has created a mess..
toss in a few generations of fucking littering scumbags who toss shit anywhere but a trash can..
I am glad I have memories of diving in pristine areas and taking float trips down crystal clear rivers..
i was so disappointed in Thailand...until I realized how many million tourists got there before me..
Cambodia has changed dramatically in 2 years..and it with china poisoning everything they touch...it is not looking good..
straws were paper with a wax coating...
it is the fucking water bottles that are the biggest issue to me...
focusing on fucking straws is something a liberal idiot would push...
I grew up drinking from the tap in my hometown.
buying bottled water was a joke...
I saw it in Acapulco in 1966 with my parents in glass returnable bottles in the hotel...same thing I saw in Bangkok at my old hotel near Naga...
cars were made out of steel...you could sit on the hood at a drive in movie in the summer time and not do $2,000 in damage..
cars are plastic...motos ...you name it...siding to houses...
We need all the democrats and socialists to start living like they talk...no more cars or planes..
no meat eating...living on the bare minimum..
Then, the rest of us can go about our lives doing common sense recycling and thanking them for their efforts..
or....just put a bounty on them and reduce the population...

Hey j57
You are so lucky to have memories we can only dream of.
Btw the straw is a sysnonym for plastic waste, in this post, I guess.