Charles County approves plastic straw ban
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steppinthrax
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It goes way beyond this. Plastic is forever, almost never breaks down completely. It eventually turns into microplastics. Paper is a different story. Now, if they can responsibility replace plastic with paper/other material straw and show that we are not shifting the environmental impact. Then I think we have something.
Chris0nllyn
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Or the plastic drink tops they have to push the paper straws through.
black dog
Free America
I think that's the one that we ran aground on avoiding the tank a few years back...
Honda lower units are expensive...
black dog
Free America
You might want to see what happens to paper in a landfill. Not alot...
Straws are a waste of time, go back to packaging of the 60's when possible and do single stream recycling before anything goes into a landfill..
There is no recycling where I live.. The funny part is not to many miles away is a Owens Brockway glass bottle plant in Lapel,IN and recycled glass is trucked in from other larger city's to feed this plant. Our eagles looked into saving glass beer bottles and I believe it paid about 14 bucks a ton. We used to save aluminum cans behind the bar, we had two can crushers and the custodian bagged them up and a few times a year we would cash them in at the local yard. Lots of work for a few hundred a year. Now a older woman that doesn't have alot picks them up each day and she gets the money.
I actually don't care about plastic straw bans as long as I have a straw of some sort. I just don't see the point other than feel-good legislation, which I am opposed to. As has been pointed out, plastic water bottles, beverage jugs, and drink tops make more plastic waste than straws do. I suppose you gotta start somewhere, but straw bans seem to be a fad rather than a real solution.
steppinthrax
Active Member
Paper decomposes in a landfill. Now, if it's coated with plastic, maybe not.
luvmygdaughters
Well-Known Member
How about using Twizzlers as straws?
black dog
Free America
Paper is one of the largest volume products that get put in landfills, it's tough to biodgrade when things get sealed in and don't get air,water and sunlight to speedup the process.
Do a test, read your Sunday paper and flod it back up and bury it under 6" of soil in your back yard and look at it in a year.
Next to it bury a glossy national geographic magazine the same way and see how long it takes to biodgrade.
Single stream recycling ends the sillyness of folks having multiple plastic boxes deal with, who wants to wash out glass, metal and aluminum cans and drag a few boxes to the curb each week..when it all can be collected with a trash truck and dropped off and get sorted before what's left going into the dump.
It's a waste of commoditys that we just carelessly put in the landfill..
We should be like the lead acid battery world, almost 100% recycled.
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mAlice
professional daydreamer
so now we go back to cutting down trees to make paper straws
and they'll wrap them in plastic to prevent contamination.
black dog
Free America
Aw hell, I'll just speed up the nonsense and drink my Ketel One from a sippy cup.
Ketel One Oranje is sippy cup ready...
gary_webb
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There is a much more important query.
