[Libloather]

They need to find a way to just inhale the stuff.

[ClearCase_guy]

Do-gooders aren't really interested in doing good. They just want to feel that they are better than the people who live life normally. Because the do-gooders care so much.

[Flick Lives]

In the not distant future, some virtue signaling morons in a city will ban all straws, cups, plates, and napkins. you’ll have to just hold out your hands and the cashier will dump the burger and fries in your hands.

[Pecos]

This is incidental to the fact that recycling paper does far more harm to the environment than putting it into a landfill and growing more trees. Recycling paper (a) uses some seriously nasty bleaching chemicals, and (b) requires more fuel to power the recycling plants and all of the trucks used to transport everything than is used to just make more paper. And growing more trees is a good thing, right?

It's kind of like when you get a song stuck in your head and can't get rid of it. In this case, the enviro wackos keep chanting "Recycle. Recycle. Recycle." without actually thinking about what they're jazzed up about.

[pepsionice]

Based on the marginal comments that McDonalds made....I don’t think any real testing was done with the paper straws. I could tell you....with my experience with slushies and milkshakes....paperstraws are worthless. And if you used paperstraws with regular sodas....there’s a time-limit of maybe ten minutes that they function correctly.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

It is biodegradable, which is an improvment. The plastic straws were just being dumped in the Pacific Ocean by the Chinese. Paper straws make a lot of sense. I don’t see a reason to mock McDonalds over this move beyond that their reason is PC and not actually helping the environment. Still an improvement.

I approve.

[IamConservative]

I remember using paper straws as a kid. Way back when milk shakes were served with a spoon because the straws always failed.

[BitWielder1]

They should just burn all paper waste and let nature make fresh new wood from the released CO₂.
We know it works and it uses nice clean solar power to boot.

[I want the USA back]

Liberal “solutions” make things worse.

[central_va]

Remember these coffee stirring spoons? Coke heads were using them so Mickey D's had to stop using them.

[faucetman]

Replace paper bags with plastic bags anyone?

[dfwgator]

McDonald’s is poison garbage, anyway.

[bert]

Ha...... Recycled straws?

Pissing in the ocean

America’s problem is not getting rid of straws. Americas problem is not getting rid of progressives.

Any one progressive causes more harm than all the discarded plastic strawss

[ridesthemiles]

The largest recycler in California has closed their doors.

[TBP]

This is how liberals protect the environment.

[Chad N. Freud]

“While the materials are recyclable, their current thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed by our waste solution providers, who also help us recycle our paper cups,” a McDonald’s spokesman told the UK’s Press Association news agency.

If they’re implying that their recyclers can handle the bottom of a paper cup, and the curved area where it attaches to the cylinder of the cup, but cannot handle a paper straw, I’m going to have to call B.S. and ask for proof.

If thickness nor curvature disqualify cups, why would they disqualify straws?