• JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      You could always not buy their completely non essential products, but suggesting that rarely gets a good reception from the “obsessively whining about straws” crows.

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        6 months ago

        Oh yay, blame the consumers not the ones making the trash, worked so well the past 50 years

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          6 months ago

          Nah consume consume consume, shirk blame

          Actively reject education, then refuse any blame. That sounds like the best plan!!

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            6 months ago

            If everybody individually behaved correctly, we wouldn’t need any laws.
            But as the entire human history has shown us, that is not the case. Which is why societies have passed laws even before recorded history.

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        6 months ago

        You could always not buy their completely non essential products

        I’ve been trying this for decades, but it hasn’t put a dent in the global growth of waste.

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      6 months ago

      Said no one ever.

      People so mad about straws act like you cannot possibly work against a problem in more than a single way.

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        6 months ago

        The problem is we are not trying multiple ways. We only try the ineffective ones to avoid trying the effective ones.

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          Banning straws (generally, single-use plastics) as well as non-attached bottlecaps is the most effective way to keep EU beaches clean. They had a look at what’s out there and those were the big offenders that could be addressed so they’re doing it.

          …also the only bad thing about those silicone straws I bought is that they’re too short for bottles. It really is the ideal material for the application.

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            6 months ago

            Yeah, the beach nearest to me just had a coal power plant reactivated last year. Nothing we can do about that though.

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              6 months ago

              Is that coal power plant producing plastic waste or are you perhaps talking about an entirely different problem that need to be addressed by separate legislation?