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EU proposes to ban plastic straws, stirs, and cotton buds
Associated Press ^ | May 28, 2018 8:47 AM EDT

Posted on 05/28/2018 7:20:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: sheana
I always throw my q tips in the ocean. Don’t you?

I thought Q-tips were the secret rarified bits of intel passed along to the shadowy, cutting edge geniuses here on FR??

21 posted on 05/28/2018 8:06:39 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: mylife

A bit off topic, and this is Canadian, not EU, but a funny skit about fancy drinks nonetheless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfihVLm_Uc


22 posted on 05/28/2018 8:07:37 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

EU would be better off banning Muslims.


23 posted on 05/28/2018 8:10:51 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: sheana

“I always throw my q tips in the ocean. Don’t you?”..

I’d try but the ocean is over 1000 miles from here. I don’t have a good enough throwing arm for that distance.


24 posted on 05/28/2018 8:12:56 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Olog-hai

“....a stick that is designed to hold a balloon”...

They ban the stick but never mentioned the balloon. What?


25 posted on 05/28/2018 8:14:35 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Olog-hai

If they could get around to banning rapes, pedophile gangs, acid throwers, knife wielding assailants, and truck bombs....that would be great.


26 posted on 05/28/2018 8:15:26 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: DaveA37

FIRST the stick, then the balloon.

Part of the ‘Master Plan’.
Render something (someone) useless, ban its props, then you can ban it - the real target.


27 posted on 05/28/2018 8:16:56 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: Olog-hai

Instead of banning such products, how about a ban on cities dumping their garbage in the ocean.


28 posted on 05/28/2018 8:17:36 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: KarlInOhio

It’s very true. See links:

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2015/11/5-asian-countries-produce-majority-of-plastic-in-worlds-oceans/#vJmDqf2XfZmUb3hD.97

http://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484


29 posted on 05/28/2018 8:21:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: Olog-hai

Some people really need those.


30 posted on 05/28/2018 8:22:43 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat

I should think they’d be fine as long as the sticks were made of paper.


31 posted on 05/28/2018 8:23:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Olog-hai

Alternatives?

Those alternatives must be ‘sustainable’. {’sustainable’/’sustainability’ — their new hot-button trigger word.}

Does that mean a return to — PAPER??????

Or is everyone going to have to carry around a collection of metal instruments — stirrers, sporks, etc.?

==

If Libs had more than cursory intelligence, they could have foreseen the unintended consequences a few decades ago when they were decrying the use of paper products.

For every Lib solution, there are multitudes of resulting new problems.


32 posted on 05/28/2018 8:28:11 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: SkyDancer

There are certainly those who want to do that and force cloth diapers on everyone.


33 posted on 05/28/2018 8:57:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Jawohl!


34 posted on 05/28/2018 9:03:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Olog-hai

The bit that they don’t tell you is that this is just a start of things banned.


35 posted on 05/28/2018 9:27:04 AM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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It seems they are not smart enough to develop UV degradable plastics. Salt water degradable plastics?

With knives outlawed in places and now plastic cutlery are they now mandated to eat with their fingers. Some people will have to start washing their left hand.


36 posted on 05/28/2018 9:35:47 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Olog-hai

Realistically one does get tired of seeing soiled disposable diapers thrown out along highways and freeways.


37 posted on 05/28/2018 9:36:38 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Yikes, we don’t want Hellary without a good supply of Depends.


38 posted on 05/28/2018 9:37:27 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: sheana

yep. i drive out there to make sure they’re all in a plastic container, too. so evil gas use and plastic to boot.


39 posted on 05/28/2018 9:41:26 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: SkyDancer

Well, that’s one problem. Replace them in a forced manner with cloth diapers and you’ll get cloth diapers dumped in the same manner, not solving that problem.


40 posted on 05/28/2018 9:49:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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