But keep using your wooden straws, folks. Remember that Reduce Reuse Recycle was created by the plastics manufacturing industry in the 1970s to subtly shift ownership onto the consumer. And by god did it ever work!!
Plastic straws are not a problem because they are plastic, but because the shape + durability of plastic make them specially dangerous for fauna and hard to recycle.
Banning plastic straws was a good move. We need more of those, many more. Just because one policy doesn’t fix everything doesn’t mean it doesn’t fix some.
I think it is time to ban plastic bottles. LOL who am I kidding. Next year it will be twice as much.
Oregon has a $0.10
bountydeposit on each can and bottle. Seriously encourages returning them properly.But to be fair, it’s not Coca-Cola dumping the plastic, it’s Coca-Cola consumers dumping the plastic.
Is it not people doing that? Why single out coca cola? If they stopped existing tomorrow, it would just be another brand of soda that people were mindlessly littering.
