I remember when the milk cartons we were served for school lunch not only came with paper straws, but the cartons were paper, too.
No plastic bags at stores either, everything was paper. Much more environmentally friendly.
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Nope, back then it was wax coated paper.Pretty sure those are plasic lined paper.
Nope, back then it was wax coated paper.
Nope, back then it was wax coated paper.
I remember when the milk cartons we were served for school lunch not only came with paper straws, but the cartons were paper, too.
No plastic bags at stores either, everything was paper. Much more environmentally friendly.
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Okay, you win.Actually if you were old as crap you would remember when milk at school was served in a glass bottle and they also had paper straws to drink it with.
I'm old as crap.
I see no problem here. We really should be doing something about our excessive use of plastic for disposable items. If people want a straw they can ask for one.
If instituting a pigovian tax on the purchase of straws makes business unaffordable, then the restaurant can choose not to purchase straws. It's the solution you want anyway. If restaurants still want to have straws, they can pay the tax to (either directly or indirectly) to clean up the pollution caused by said straws. Let the market decide if the cost of cleaning up pollution is worth using straws.
I too often prefer to put prices on behavior, rather than banning (and I hate underpriced problems, looking at you parking spaces..). But the problem is that it's hard to accurately price externalities. How do put a price on destroyed ecosystems, or exterminated species, or polluted waterways? (not saying straws cause this, but in a more general sense).
There is also the issue that pricing of pollution is regressive, where rich people can afford to pay a $0.50 "straw tax", while poorer people might not.
Sometimes you'd get a little chunk of wax with your milk also. That was probably paraffin based wax which comes from.....petroleum.I remember when the milk cartons we were served for school lunch not only came with paper straws, but the cartons were paper, too.
No plastic bags at stores either, everything was paper. Much more environmentally friendly.
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No way man, zin measured a straw that is likely heavier and another that is likely lighter than a standard drinking straw. The heavier straw was basically 1g so a standard straw must be lighter than that. Coffee straw was ~0.3gA single packet of sugar contains roughly 10 g of sugar, I've weighed it before. 3 g per straw seems about right to me.
They should just ban ice, then you wouldn't need a straw.