Do they still use paper straws? I guess I haven’t paid that
much attention but I don’t remember getting a paper straw
any time lately.
There are places where plastics straws have been outlawed by legislation. There are companies that have chosen to eschew plastic in favor of paper straws as a way to Green virtue-signal.
In the stupid places that have banned plastic straws. Yes.
We've gone from plastic straws wrapped in paper to paper straws wrapped in plastic.