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Stubb's pledges to stop using plastic straws
cbsaustin ^ | June 22, 2018 | cbsaustin

Posted on 06/22/2018 2:07:55 PM PDT by bgill

Legendary Austin music and BBQ venue Stubb's has pledged to stop using plastic drinking straws. In a tweet, Stubb's said they would discontinue use "effective immediately" and also highlighted just how many straws Americans use in a day: We pledged to stop using plastic drinking straws. Americans use approximately 500 million straws daily. That's enough straws to circle the earth 2.5x. Effective immediately we will no longer be using straws. Join us in fighting pollution by saying 'no' to plastic drinking straws!

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: plasticstraws
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To: Signalman

“How about paper straws? Are they PC?”

I grew up using paper straws——we would unroll/unwind them after usage-—and they WERE PC-——Pretty Cool.

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21 posted on 06/22/2018 2:20:35 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Reno89519; Chode
Just order these
22 posted on 06/22/2018 2:21:49 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

They will get my straw when they pry it from my cold, dead Diet Coke covered fingers.


23 posted on 06/22/2018 2:22:02 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: bgill

Sure you’re not talking about Rudy’s?


24 posted on 06/22/2018 2:22:11 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Blue House Sue

Fine, typo.


25 posted on 06/22/2018 2:23:40 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

26 posted on 06/22/2018 2:24:32 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Signalman
paper straws are acceptable, but glass straws really says "I'm chic"....

actually I have no problem with eliminating some things...

we're are so wasteful in this society...

27 posted on 06/22/2018 2:24:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: bgill

500 million straws per day? That’s ridiculous. That’s more than 1 straw every day for every man, woman and child in the country.

These fake news sources should employ some kind of common sense buffer dude who will flag their propaganda when it goes over the line from fake to absurd. Would help to keep them from looking like total flunkies all the time.


28 posted on 06/22/2018 2:25:54 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: bgill

Plastic is a waste product of the petroleum-refining process. As long as the Stubbs folks drive cars, plastic is going to be created. Might as well make it into something useful like...oh... I don’t know...plastic straws?


29 posted on 06/22/2018 2:26:22 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: mabarker1

Order as MAGA?


30 posted on 06/22/2018 2:26:32 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: bgill

That would be 1.5 straws for EVERY man, woman, and child (plus all those humans who do not identify with the listed categories)in the United States, EVERY DAY.

I am not buying it.


31 posted on 06/22/2018 2:26:34 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: bgill

Big deal!


32 posted on 06/22/2018 2:26:48 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: Signalman

Monumental Stupidity at work.


33 posted on 06/22/2018 2:28:21 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: bgill




The "no straws" movement is really big all over the world, and I don't really see what's wrong with it. We've got oceans with giant islands of waste plastic in them... There's nothing wrong with business owners making environmentally and bottom-line friendly decisions. Not EVERYTHING that's "green" is red on the inside.




34 posted on 06/22/2018 2:28:38 PM PDT by golux
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To: KyCats

See #31. I did not read your post before I posted. GMTA.


35 posted on 06/22/2018 2:28:39 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: rickomatic

“Their boogey man changes daily.”

That’s because the have no foresight. And also because they just like disrupting things.


36 posted on 06/22/2018 2:28:45 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: butlerweave

LOL! You’re right! No more sipping at all! Guzzling from now on.


37 posted on 06/22/2018 2:28:57 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: KyCats

My Schwinn mechanics and I grabbed a big handful of straws everytime we picked up our combined lunch order from Micky Dees or
The BK Lounge. After two summers we had enough straws to fill a chest freezer. Few of us ever even used sissy sticks. We had a lot of ketchup packs too. Haha. Stupid bbq joint.


38 posted on 06/22/2018 2:35:26 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: NEMDF

Two straws per every Latte’ or Cafe’ Americano’....think about it. Two straws for every hard pop in every bar too.


39 posted on 06/22/2018 2:36:38 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Signalman

How about paper straws?

If you use a white one you are a racist.


40 posted on 06/22/2018 2:38:45 PM PDT by Jolla
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