'Eco-friendly' straws contain potentially toxic chemicals – posing a threat to people and wildlife
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Paper and bamboo straws contain ‘forever chemicals’ – maybe threatening the health of people and wildlife.
    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      The problem is fast food/restaurants/quick stops.

      I’ve never even thought of using a straw at home. But fast food/quick stops use disposable cups that aren’t structuraly sound without a lid, so you need straws.

      Restaurants give straws to everyone and then throw them away regardless of if they’re used, even tho their reusable glasses don’t need them. So people are just using them out of habit. I’ve heard “the glasses aren’t clean enough” which is ridiculous when you’re eating off plates with silverware that are washed exactly like the cups

      • RockyBockySocky@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        huh?

        Because food/restaurants/quick stops currently give out straw we can’t make them stop giving out straws? That makes no sense lol.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
      48·
      1 year ago

      Single use bendy straws were literally invented to help keep bedbound and other disabled people alive. There are also many reasons people can’t use different alternatives.

      You personally not using something, doesn’t mean others don’t, and to deny access to a literal lifeline for the sake of 0.003% of the plastics in the ocean (literally a drop in an ocean) because it makes you feel better and requires zero effort or sacrifice (from you), instead of actually acting to resolve the problem (like being anti-capitalist rather than just trying to apply band aids to its symptoms) is not only gross and ableist, but also a colossal counterproductive waste of time.

      • who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        Most straws are not bendy anyway, my brother-in-law who is disabled keeps a pack of the straws he likes on him because he cant rely on the places he goes to have bendable straws. The disabled are not helpless they can take care of themselves without us creating a demand for more garbage.

      • RockyBockySocky@kbin.social
        51·
        1 year ago

        Please stop bringing up fringe cases when talking about general problem, they could still have straws but the default is no straw, people that need it ask, or people that need straws could bring their own straws.

        It’s silly to use this to justify a straw coming with every drink ever.

        • DessertStorms@kbin.social
          34·
          1 year ago

          “stop bringing up an already marginalised segment of the population I want to continue marginalising further in peace, I don’t care if they can’t participate in society or even die due to lack of access!”

          No.

          And to your flimsy points - NO ONE EVER SAID THERE SHOULD BE A STRAW IN EVERY DRINK, IF YOU DON’T WANT ONE ASK TO NOT FUCKING GET ONE, now that we got rid of that strawman (no pun intended, this isn’t funny to some of us), people shouldn’t need to ask for basic accessibility, nor should they have to disclose personal medical information to get it, but now that ableists like you have forced this situation to boost your own egos, they do, and are often denied, because wait staff are not medically trained, and are often abelists like you, so they get refused and called liars and accused of destroying the environment.
          Never mind that expecting people to always have their own accessibility aids, rather than have them freely available creates an inaccessible society.
          Which is exactly what ableists like you are fighting for.

          Now I know I’m wasting my breath, because you clearly don’t give a shit about disable people, but others who might scroll by might fall for your ableist logical fallacies, and I’m here to let them know the harm they cause.

          Oh, and on a side note - do you eat sea food? If not, do you go around telling others not to?

          Because the fishing industry is responsible for over 15 thousand times more plastic pollution in the ocean than straws create.

          So lets not pretend you give a shit about the environment either, you’re just looking to make yourself feel better by “acting” (no matter how useless the action is), but mostly you’re just desperate to punch down at an “easy target” you don’t think will fight back, but you’re wrong.

          Seriously, I can’t even imagine the despicable brain processes it takes to rationalise to yourself prioritising something that doesn’t even cause 0,003% of the pollution you pretend to care about, and which the alternatives to cause even more pollution, over the literal lives of disabled people.

          Go fuck yourself, ableist.

          • RockyBockySocky@kbin.social
            31·
            1 year ago

            Calm the fuck down bud, I said nothing ableist at all.

            You said “You personally not using something, doesn’t mean others don’t” and the whole tone of your comment sounds like you’re against getting rid of straws.

            Yes straws isn’t single-handedly destroying the planet but not giving out needless plastic with every drink is still good.

            Yes some people will still need straws, no one said “FUCK DISABLED PEOPLE, NO STRAWS FOR YOU” and when talking about general problems and solutions like this we all know there will be exceptions.

            Bringing up fringes cases and making it sound like a general counter argument is silly.

            And no I don’t eat sea food or any other animals and yes I tell other people to stop too :)

      • Hydroel@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        If plastic straws were only used by the people who actually need them, they wouldn’t represent even a fraction of that 0.003%, and that wouldn’t even be an issue worth raising. The rest of us can drink from the glass.