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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: bgill

I wonder if Austin will ban all of the Barbeque joints because of the smoke they emit. That would be funny as hell. If it were to ever happen, thank the Lord for Lockhart.


41 posted on 06/22/2018 2:41:04 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: bgill

I suggest replacing them with asbestos or lead straws.


42 posted on 06/22/2018 2:41:31 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (When words can mean anything, they can also mean nothing.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

That would mean that every American would purchase 2-3 beverages daily, away from home. Just cannot be true.


43 posted on 06/22/2018 2:43:56 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: butlerweave

Exactly. Remember grocery store checker asking you “paper or plastic”?
Save the Trees! It was bull crap. They wanted to shame you into giving up paper bags for plastic. Now those dam plastic bags are blown everywhere. Stuck in trees,floating in rivers and lakes, out in the ocean. Blame the stupid dam hippies.


44 posted on 06/22/2018 2:48:49 PM PDT by CJinVA
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To: CJinVA

“Now those dam plastic bags are blown everywhere. Stuck in trees———


The VERY TREES that we saved by using plastic. (Sigh)

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45 posted on 06/22/2018 2:51:35 PM PDT by Mears
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To: bgill
Another phony caus du jour for the virtue-posturing set. Remember a few years ago it was plastic six-pack rings? They were going to destroy ocean life as we know it. This week it's straws. Or plastic grocery bags. Or whatever other idiocy becomes trendy for a couple of days.
46 posted on 06/22/2018 2:55:22 PM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: CJinVA

I always say paper.

I stock pile them. Two paper bags crumpled with kindling makes a nice fire in the wood stove.


47 posted on 06/22/2018 2:58:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: bgill

Just wait until Austin bans BBQ because of smoke and cattle.


48 posted on 06/22/2018 3:03:56 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: mabarker1
when i was a kid we had paper straws
49 posted on 06/22/2018 3:04:55 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: TexasM1A

That would be rich.

Brings to mind the Top 10% High School graduate ruling. It was UT’s fault (discrimination against whites) but in 2010, UT got all upset and whined to the Legislature that they’d have to close down Longhorn Football (!!!!!!!) if they had to abide by the rule. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! So, they got an exemption down to admitting only the Top 8% but the rest of the state colleges, through no fault of their own, continued to have to admit the original ruling against UT of the top 10%. Suuuuuuuuure, as if UT couldn’t find slots to admit 100 football players.

The story is airing on the local news right now. Saying SXSW is also banned from using plastic straws. Oooh, plastics are bad! Tell that to Dell with their plastic computers. Tell that to UT with their giant plastic sex toys next time they protest campus carry with “Cocks Not Glocks.”


50 posted on 06/22/2018 3:10:52 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Austin sucks in General.
When we go to the MotoGP and F1 races up the always stay down in Gruene on the river, Never set foot in the City Limits of Lostin.


51 posted on 06/22/2018 3:15:41 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: bgill

Without even making the illegals sign a pledge that they will never use plastic! What a chicken outfit.


52 posted on 06/22/2018 3:16:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Mears

Every tree with a bag caught in it should say “thank you for not using me to make that bag.”


53 posted on 06/22/2018 3:17:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: miss marmelstein

In 1949 I was 6 and blew the paper off my straw in the cafeteria, the old hag principal made me stand behind my chair for the rest of the lunch period. My first of many punishments to come—and I’m a girl!


54 posted on 06/22/2018 3:20:35 PM PDT by RightLady (Adam Schiff is NOT Adam Smith)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

:-)

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55 posted on 06/22/2018 3:22:27 PM PDT by Mears
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To: KyCats
That’s more than 1 straw every day for every man, woman and child in the country.

Well, some of us use more than one straw per day.

56 posted on 06/22/2018 3:30:57 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: RightLady
Oh, I spent many times in the hallway as a child. Not just for blowing off that piece of paper, lol!
57 posted on 06/22/2018 3:34:26 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: bgill

Is this the same company that sells Stubbs BBQ sauce in the grocery stores?


58 posted on 06/22/2018 3:37:01 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: Dr. Zzyzx
Plastic is a term that has no meaning because there are many types of synthetic compounds called plastic.

Straws can be made of different "plastics" but because of the abundance of fracked natural gas, straws are being made from natural gas, and it is not waste.

Ethane is removed from natural gas and dehydrogenated to produce ethene or ethylene and into polyethylene platic. Or, the propane can removed from nat gas and processed into polypropylene plastic.

Ethanol can also be used as a feedstock to make polyethylene.

The Petroleum product known as naptha, which is not waste, can also be used as feedstock to produce these platics

59 posted on 06/22/2018 3:37:23 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Rebelbase

Yes,
Stubb’s barbecue sauce in you local grocery
is the same Stubb’s barbecue in Austin, Texas.

I guess I’ll stick with Sweet Baby Ray’s.


60 posted on 06/22/2018 3:44:59 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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