Britain to ban sale of plastic straws in bid to fight waste

[SIRIUS]

So you think there's gonna be straws smuggled in? Really?

[Chryseus]

Not smuggled, imported, they can't check every package to see what is in it.
Hell you can even import illegal knifes from China and chances are it'll get through.

[SIRIUS]

You really think there's gonna be enough incentive to do that? They're just fucking straws

[smurfy]

This is just about getting them out of shops and restaurants, no one is going to hang about on street corners late at night to meet with their straw dealer

[Chryseus]

Probably not unless someone really likes plastic straws, I was just pointing out there is no way to ban the sale of them when it comes to online shopping.

[jason3232]

tbh I think taxing straws just like plastic bags is a pretty neat idea, but I am not sure if it will work like plastic bags.

[SIRIUS]

Well yeah, sure some people will be crazy enough to import straws... For some reason. But this ban will reduce the amount of straws drastically in the UK

[GordonZombie]

Plastic straws are important for disabled people with mobility issues, I'm not sure an outright ban is the way to go.

[IlluminatiRex]

Main campus of my school just switched to paper straws, good move tbh.

[carcarcargo]

You expect nuance from the tories?

[SquidsEye]

Loads of places I've been to have started moving to paper straws already, they work fine. The massive environmental benefit of switching to paper straws far outweighs the negligible difference in personal convenience.

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

what will happen to all the old stock

[OvB]

http://act.oceanconservancy.org/images/2010ICCReportRelease_pressPhotos/ICCcharts/topTenMarineDebrisItems2009W.jpg

We can make an impact by removing plastic straws, lids, and cups all together. As well as plastic bags in areas that still use them. The title and thread focus on the straws, but the article is about a wider ban on similar products as well as a call to end sale of plastic single use products all together, giving industry a time to adapt. This is a necessary change. It's not a feel good measure, its a small step to get society off it's wastefulness addiction.

[Bald & Beautiful]

if you can drink a milkshake with a straw, it ain't a milkshake. so it is written and so it shall be.

[Conely]

are smaller places actually gonna stock them though?

guess it could be mandated that they have straws just in case, like a disability-accessible thing

[Chryseus]

So instead of thowing away plastic single use items we're going to be throwing away paper / wood single use products, that doesn't sound much better really, sure it degrades quite a bit quicker but it's still going to be floating around for a while.
Unless they mean a total ban on single use products, in which cases they can take my cotton buds from my cold dead hands.

[Peachy]

You're a gimmick account, right

[SIRIUS]

What do you even mean by that?

[OvB]

Biodegradables, preferably.