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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on July 18, 2018, 06:19:53 PM
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That anti-straw movement? It's all based on one 9-year-old's suspect statistic
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/18/anti-straw-movement-based-unverified-statistic-500-million-day/750563002/
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated the estimated amount of plastic produced globally since the mid-1950s, which is 8.3 billion metric tons.
The origin of the movement to ban plastic straws may come as a surprise: It began with a 9-year-old boy named Milo Cress and his 2011 campaign, "Be Straw Free," which launched to raise awareness about plastic waste.
His big finding? Americans use more than 500 million drinking straws daily, enough to fill 125 school buses. That figure has become highly touted since, referenced in straw ban coverage from The New York Times and National Geographic to reports from the National Park Service (and USA TODAY).
Movement based on lies like other leftist movements. :mental:
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Simple experiment claims that 'Starbucks' strawless scheme' will actually require the use of MORE plastic than its existing lids with straws
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5951503/Simple-experiment-claims-Starbucks-strawless-scheme-require-use-plastic.html
A simple experiment claims to reveal that Starbucks planned switch to strawless lids in an effort to environmental threat to oceans will actually require the use of more plastic than its previous use of straws with traditional lids, based on weighing the different possible combinations.
The experiment was conducted by Christian Britschgi, assistant editor of Reason, an editorially independent publication of the Reason Foundation, which is a national, non-profit research and educational organization.
'Customers are at best breaking even under Starbucks' strawless scheme, or they are adding between .32 and .88 grams to their plastic consumption per drink,' Britschgi argued in the article.
Quixotic isn't it? :mental:
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Starbucks Responds To The Backlash From Their Plastic Straw Ban Announcement
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a22223413/starbucks-responds-to-straw-ban-backlash/
Starbucks' recent announcement it was to go plastic straw-free in all stores by the year 2020 was generally met with lots of praise. That said, there are plenty who've spoken out against the blanket plastic straw ban. Disability rights activists were planning an NYC protest against the new policy for Sunday when they heard from Starbucks, PBS reports.
Groups like the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled and Disabled in Action remain concerned that if Starbucks eliminates plastic straws completely, people with disabilities would not be able to or comfortable consuming their beverages.
More unintended consequences.
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Only outlaws will have straws.