Also fuck bamboo straws and other paper straws filled with PFAS. just use a normal straw or none at all
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Maybe beverages could be served in containers that don't require a straw. I wouldn't mind being served a can or a bottle instead a cardboard cup.
The main issue is drinks with ice. But maybe we could add a retainer on top of the glass to hold the ice so we can sip directly from the cup.
My teeth make pretty good retainers. It seems like a weird nostalgia thing. There must be far more pop consumed in a bottle than in a fast food cup, and I've never seen anyone put a straw in a bottle (except on tv).
The cold is a bit too much on my teeth unfortunately.
Weirdly, in south eat Asia they often give you straws in bottles. I don't know why.
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Or you know, food grade stainless steel straws. No bad chemicals, doesn't turn to mush (unless exposed to temperatures of 1,400 to 1,530 Β°C) and fully recyclable. Some people say they are hard to wash but ive never had a problem i just stick em vertical into the silverware holder of my dishwasher and it's always gotten all the way through the straw clean.
They are cheap to produce as well. Not plastic cheap maybe but businesses could easily replace plastic straws with them without going bankrupt or anything. Easy model is just have em as an optional extra so once people already have 8 they can just use their own lol
temperatures of 1,400 to 1,530 Β°C
Well, that rules out drinking McDonaldβs coffee with one then.
Hey! I'm old enough to get that reference!
I think id prefer a glass straw to metal, but i get thats not something fast food could do easily.
Main issue with that is shipping, of course the government could give them subsidies to cut the costs
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I use my own metal straw and it works great
We have those at home too and they're the only straws I use. They just feel premium in a way.
There is a learning curve with metal straws, if you only used plastic / paper. I hit my teeth so often with the metal one when I first got it.
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I was recently served a long macaroni as a straw in a restaurant. It was honestly amazing how well it worked! At no point it was mushy and there's nothing in it that I wouldn't eat with my pasta dish anyway.
They are good for some drinks but not great for others in my experience. They do get soggy after a few hours and start to dissolve a bit into the drink so if you use them at home and refill a few times over an evening they aren't great. They also react with some fizzy drinks and cause them to bubble over.
There's something about having a lot of money that makes you hate mother nature. It's weird.
Feels like to them, mother nature and environment is a hindrance to their convenience
I think once you unlocked all the luxuries that the world has to offer, the temptation gets the better of you eventually. I don't condone it, but I also can't say I wouldn't live a bit more wasteful if I had all the money in the world
Taylor Swifts private jet/boat circling the globe to pick up her boyfriend
How else do you go on a cruise while flying your jet? Checkmate, working class!
The jet is so large it actually has its own smaller jets inside to travel from the mansion to the wave pool.
notice how they wrote billionaire and not Taylor, very good
Implicitly includes Taylor though, she's not off the hook
Just all the others are also on the hook now
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i really do not understand where this idea that plastic has something to do with the climate came from, how do people imagine that to work?
No, the point of not using plastic is to not have plastics blowing around on the street for 50 years before it's degraded into microplastics that instead enter our bodies.
Plastic is made from oil that is pumped up from the earth. This oil contains carbon that eventually gets released into the atmosphere.
The climate change is caused by carbon that is pumped up from the earth and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
Do you have enough imagination to see any kind of connection?
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Oil is processed into polymers and has plasticizers added to it to become a drinking straw, a process that emits mucho carbon.
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Taylor Swift needs to relax her Triangle of Sadness.
Not even a shit post
There's a different between shitpost and shit post, you know?
We aim for the former in here.
Taylor on the way to, ah forget it.
I don't know if all these recent jet memes are people just joking around or are you people actually convinced private jets are the problem?
Taylor swift, and every single billionaire alive could be flying 24/7/365 OR NOT and it would make absolutely no difference to fighting climate change.
The main polluters are industry and farming.
All this other shit around are just distractions keeping you from actually going after the people that are causing our crisis.
I don't know if it's astroturfing or what, but it seems like it's deliberate manipulation to keep people inactive.
You memeing on Tylor or using wood straws, or recycling your soda can does fuck all. A single paper plant will dump out so much co2 and pollution that will negate the effort of millions.
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