Costco has paper straws now

[EightFingers]

Glad they’re trying them, but they were a little on the rough side.

Puna: Our roosters crow first

[dan_c]

I was driving home from there today drinking a soda. After the confusion of the straw collapsing at the sipping side I finally realized it was paper. I don’t think the thing would make to the first refill — though like EightFingers I appreciate the effort.

[MarkP]

I forego both the straw and the plastic lid.

[randomq]

I bring one of those ozark trail vacuum travel cups, keeps my drink cold for hours.

[terracore]

Paper straws burn 4x the energy to produce, 100x the amount of water, and create 4x more greenhouse gases than their plastic cousins. And there is no proof that paper straws decompose any faster than plastic in a landfill.

If you want to out-green your neighbor, ask for a hay straw next time you drive your Prius through the drive-through:

https://www.amazon.com/Hay-Natural-Drink...hay+straws&qid=1570991610&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=cd023-20&linkId=79606361982e3b28328872af66589a13&language=en_US

As far as safety is concerned, take a look at how many former paper mills are now EPA superfund cleanup sites.

[kalakoa]

Paper bags use something like 10x the resources of plastic bags; besides the manufacturing, they're also heavier/bulkier to ship.

The problem was never the straws/bags themselves, the problem has always been people carelessly discarding them into the environment.

Anyone remember how six-packs were held together with a "flannister" made of plastic? We had to get rid of those for the same reason. Did it do any good?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

how many former paper mills are now EPA superfund cleanup sites.

It wasn’t so much the paper but the production method paper mills used which included dioxins, and mercury as a cleaning agent when they scoured out the bottom of the effluent pipes monthly. The pipes carried clumpy, sticky waste into the river, and over time the sludge would build up constricting the discharge. Mercury was heavy and scrubbed out that bottom layer in the pipe quite well, until Big Government discovered the side effects.

Paper straws manufactured today wouldn’t use those chemicals and elements, and according to dan c’s one time analysis, they fall apart quite rapidly.

[MarkP]

Twizzlers are hollow right? Kill two teeth with one straw?

[dan d]

Only punatics could respond to such hilariuosness.
Ok thats the last straw!


HPP

[terracore]

I think science and politics has reached the point where we can ban public use of straws entirely and whenever somebody is caught using one they can be pushed to the ground and injected with a modified herpes virus that causes them to grow a natural proboscis rendering future use of straws unnecessary. California will probably be the first to make the "vaccine" required to attend school and then later realize the folly of their decision when they later ban the juice boxes the proboscis was engineered to fit. Fortunately when it gets to Hawaii I will be able to claim a religious exemption.