Posted on 07/30/2018 7:57:32 AM PDT by rktman
You know you’re a misguided environmentalist if you support banning plastic straws – the latest enviro-craze sweeping the nation – while still consuming trendy Frappuccino-like drinks contained in big ol’ plastic cups.
Cups that also have plastic lids.
Has it ever occurred to enviro “elites,” who never hesitate to ban any product they dislike, that the plastic cups they routinely use will end up in the same landfill or ocean as those plastic straws?
Perhaps the extremist crowd in Santa Barbara, a city that has criminalized the use of plastic straws and will jail and fine offenders, hasn’t noticed the single-use plastic cups they buy and chuck every day from their local coffee joint has a significantly bigger plastic load than the little plastic straws and stirrers they want to keep out of the ocean. The same goes for all the juices, soft drinks and other beverages contained in plastic they continue to consume – not to mention scores of other plastic products they purchase across industries.
Do facts matter, or are “banners” more interested in “feel-good” symbolic environmentalism than actually curtailing marine pollution?
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It’s about CONTROL.
A straw-ban. A STRAW-BAN!
For the love of... WHAT IS WITH THESE PEOPLE?!
We really like our Keurig coffee maker. In fact, where I work, on all the floors except one, (over 20 floors), all of the coffee machines have been replaced with Keurig machines.
And those plastic Keurig cops are great for filler at the bottom of planting pots.
We have decided for you that you don’t need a straw.
This article does touch on the spirit of why I moved from Seattle to rural Kentucky.
And I burn all my paper and plastic garbage.:)
I understand moving away from plastic for the environment’s sake. But that means all plastic, not just a small portion of it in order to make themselves feel better. And even the new paper straws are packaged and hanging in little plastic bags where you pick up your coffee. Can these whack jobs get any more pathetic?
Last Thursday, my wife and I set out to search for the infestation of plastic straws. I figured the best place was a shoreline.
We traveled from Maryland to western Michigan and set off along the beaches. We hiked seven miles of a remote beach in a search for the straw mounds. In case we missed any, we hiked back seven miles (we also had to get back to our tent)
We searched high and low among the assorted bits of driftwood, string, rope and other flotsam that had made its way to shore. Nary a straw to be found. Not one. We thought we had found one, but it was actually a plastic stick for an ice cream treat.
Based on my research, I’ve reached the conclusion that the straw ban hysteria is yet another made up fake issue.
Leftists always want to make people feel bad. This year it’s straws, and next year it will be cups, and the following year it will be something about how we shower. Maybe we shouldn’t shower...ever. And no more toilet paper. Toilet paper kills trees...or something. How about that? Disagree? Well, you’re a Nazi.
My granddaughter and I were at a Mexican restaurant the other night and they gave us these really thick cardboard straws. 18 year old GD says.....God I hate these things. How stupid. Every once in awhile she shows that I’ve had an influence on her and makes me proud. lol
How many condoms are in the oceans?
Plastic is far less environmentally intrusive than paper. Wax coated paper, like the new straws will need to be use far more resources to produce and create pollution all along the production stream from diesel fumes at the logging sites to dirty wastewater at the factory. Plus, when landfilled, paper really doesn’t break down, especially coated paper.
On my beach hike, we saw a decent amount of plastic trash. Every single piece except for three were broken down into smaller pieces and greatly deteriorated, sort of like it was decomposing. Hmmm, you mean it doesn’t last forever? No, the sun breaks plastic down, just like paper.
Well, I figured out that if plastic straws are such a threat to our existence then old tires must be even worse. So, even though I live smack dab in the middle of the North American continent, I don’t want to risk them getting washed into the oceans. I burn them in my burn pit.
I certainly would like to use less paper/plastic items but straws are what?...about .000000000000001% of the problem...if that....
San Francisco, where you can shoot up heroin on public streets, throw the needle on the ground and sh*t on it and it’s no problem. But try to use a plastic straw and you’ll be arrested.
Have they made Beer Pong Illegal at UCSB yet?
I can only imagine all those Ping Pong Balls and Red Solo Cups filling up Landfill’s or plugging the Blowholes of Dolphins and Whales swimming by Santa Barbara.
Comes from one of the Dems greatest minds , a 9 year old
Compostable pods are available, but hard to find.
Great organic coffee in them, too.
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