Britain is banning plastic straws — and asking Canada to join

[MHz]

Another sign (along with joining 2 World Wars that they started but couldn't finish on their own) that the 1867 independence was another sham.

If they moved on the Falklands as slow as the brexit vote everyone there would be speaking Spanish.

 

[JamesBondo]

how many trees is 50 million uses per day?

 

[Curious Cdn]

how many trees is 50 million uses per day?

It's a renewable resource, Ogg. We farm spruce for paper products the way that we farm wheat.

Fecking genius.

 

[Hoid]

Paper is a byproduct of lumber milling waste.

 

[MHz]

How many people use paper straws??

 

[Hoid]

Hopefully at some point all of them.

 

[Curious Cdn]

How many people use paper straws??

When I was a kid and teenager, it was 100% of us. You won't find much archaeological evidence of it though, as it would have mostly broken down by now.

 

[Hoid]

There is a lot of unnecessary waste in packaging. But packaging is largely consumer driven so what has to happen is a widespread and determined populist movement towards less wasteful and harmful packaging. Difficult for society like ours to achieve given the current generation of adults - but always hope for the future.

 

[MHz]

When I was a kid and teenager, it was 100% of us. You won't find much archaeological evidence of it though, as it would have mostly broken down by now.

Seems you went through the same process, only faster and more complete.

 

[Hoid]

Fleece is another example of unnecessary and harmful consumer driven pollution.

 

[Curious Cdn]

There is a lot of unnecessary waste in packaging. But packaging is largely consumer driven so what has to happen is a widespread and determined populist movement towards less wasteful and harmful packaging. Difficult for society like ours to achieve given the current generation of adults - but always hope for the future.

By the way, the demand for paper is in a free-fall right now due to the demise of printed media, newspapers especially. Wood for paper pulp is a farmed, renewable crop in most of the country and it employs tens of thousands of Canadians who are going to lose their livelihood due to the dramatic drop in newsprint consumption.

Embrace the paper straw.

Maybe, we can make it a "national security issue", Trump style.

 

[MHz]

Fleece is another example of unnecessary and harmful consumer driven population.

Then why is 'fleecing people' the most popular industry on both sides of the 'big pond'?

 

[Twin_Moose]

Why? Can you only put those in plastic containers?




Except for one major problem. Most nations do not recycle plastic. Just visit any Latin American country. The roads and streets are littered with plastic waste. Ditto for Africa and most of Asia. The solution is much simpler; go back to using paper straws and cups or better still cups and straws made out of biodegradable materials.

How is the Western world not using plastic straws going to stop these countries from not using them?

 

[MHz]

How about 1 straw and1 cup per person and they reuse them forever.

 

[Walter]

We used to do just fine with paying paper straws.

We did just fine without the internal combustion engine, too.

 

[Hoid]

excellent analogy for once.

Plastic straws are the internal combustion engine of packaging-unnecessarily wasteful and harmful to the environment

 

[petros]

Does a paper based straw contain more or less paraffin than a plastic straw?

 

[pgs]

Paper is a byproduct of lumber milling waste.

Really .

 

[petros]

Yes just like toilet paper and cardboard.

 

[Walter]

California’s Straw Ban Is Based On A 9-Year-Old’s Research And Won’t Help The Environment | The Daily Caller

But it makes the progs feel good.