Posted on 01/25/2018 10:33:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.
Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.
This isn't just Calderon's crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won't be allowed to offer plastic straws or utensils as of July.
The Los Angeles Times has gotten behind the movement, endorsing straws-on-request policies in an editorial that also warned that "repetitive sucking may cause or exacerbate wrinkles on the lips or around the mouth." Celebrity astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson (always up for a little chiding) and Entourage star Adrian Grenier have appeared in videos where an octopus slaps them in the face for using a plastic straw.
The actual number of straws being used is unclear. Calderon, along with news outlets writing about this issue—from CNN to the San Francisco Chronicle—unfailingly state that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day, many of them ending up in waterways and oceans. The 500 million figure is often attributed to the National Park Service; it in turn got it from the recycling company Eco-Cycle.
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Hurts woman and minorities the most.
Ian Calderon is an idiot.
This article has to be complete satire - no ? How is it possible that somebody could be this STUPID ?????????????
Plastic Sporks are next!!!
“911! What is your emergency?”
“Hi. Yes. I am having lunch at the Penera Bread on Lambard. This waitress brought be a glass of water and offered me a straw. I didn’t ask for it. I would have made her take it back, but I didn’t notice at first. I am keeping the straw for evidence. Please send cops quick. I have to hang up before she sees me calling you.”
“Maam, police are on their way. Stay where you are and remain calm. Don’t use the straw.”
We used to roll our own straws out of a $twenty when needed.
-PJ
Well...that sucks.
Don’t know. I haven’t lived there since 1997, and am I glad about that. I even hate going there to visit my family.
How is it possible that somebody could be this STUPID ?????????????
We’re taking about Left wing nut bars are we not?
That pretty much defines the California imbecile governor currently bullshitting more crap disguised as a State of the State address.
To say nothing of the moron legislature...
$1,000 per straw would really suck...
didn’t straws used to be made of paper and wax?
This is what a police state looks like.
Environmentally messy and economically wasteful. Use them for slave labor until they die. And when they do, string up the corpse in public with a sign saying, "Environmental absent-mindedness leads to THIS".
Exhibit A:
Pixie Stix!!!
QUICK! The waitresses better become illegals and shoot someone so they can have a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card
This is what it comes to - jail terms for passing out straws. This is California and even the Soviets have more common sense.
When straws are outlawed only outlaws will have straws!
Understand, California lawmakers would literally fine you for wiping too many times if they could.
Who ever thought up this idea needs to be beaten until they scream for mercy.
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