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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/plastic-straw-ban-santa-barbara-jail-time-punishment/

Katherine Timpf said:
The city of Santa Barbara has passed an ordinance that will allow restaurant employees to be punished with up to six months of jail time or a $1,000 fine for giving plastic straws to their customers.
The bill was passed unanimously last Tuesday, and covers bars, restaurants, and other food-service businesses. Establishments will still be allowed to hand out plastic stirrers, but only if customers request them.

Santa Barbara’s ordinance “is likely the most severe straw ban in the country,” according to Reason, but it’s far from the only straw ban. Seattle banned plastic straws earlier this month, mandating a a $250 fine for violators. Santa Barbara, however, has gone much further than Seattle — even aside from the harsher punishments its law imposes. Santa Barbara has banned not only plastic straws, but also compostable straws. Oh, and each individual straw counts as a separate infraction, meaning that if someone got busted handing out straws to a table of four people, he or she could end up facing years behind bars.

Are there any leftists on JPP that want to explain this nonsense in terms that sane and rational people can understand?
 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/plastic-straw-ban-santa-barbara-jail-time-punishment/



Are there any leftists on JPP that want to explain this nonsense in terms that sane and rational people can understand?

I don't understand it either, but I assume it's to lessen non biodegradable waste. Some plastics can be unhealthy so that might be an issue as well. Plastics with bp in it can leech the stuff into things under certain temps. That is an issue, and a huge trigger of prostatitis like I have issue with. Using a straw in hot, or freezing liquids could leech the stuff if it's in there. So I'm not sure if straws were one of the things containing it.
 
The irony is they'll be sticking paper straws in PLASTIC cups! Go figure.:palm:

Con #1 - Whaddaya in for?
Con #2 - Straws.
 
Hollywood will probably come up with TV show. The vice squads will be wearing hidden cameras while they try to entrap people soliciting waiters for plastic straws. And there will be plastic straw pimps on the corners waiting for their cut.
 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/plastic-straw-ban-santa-barbara-jail-time-punishment/



Are there any leftists on JPP that want to explain this nonsense in terms that sane and rational people can understand?

Hell, 3d, I thought you were smarter than that.

The funny answer is because they suck

The serious answer is explained at this link. FYI.

https://www.1millionwomen.com.au/blog/straws-why-they-seriously-suck/

Single-use plastic is a particularly nasty form of plastic. These items have a shockingly short lifespan, normally used once and then discarded to landfill. Like other plastics, they never biodegrade and take hundreds of years to break down. Plastic straws are one such single-use item, and are ending up in our oceans by the thousands.

Plastic straws made the 'top ten' items picked up on beach clean ups, and it's not hard to see why. Avid scuba diver Kasey Turner was snorkeling after work recently at a popular dive site in Manly, Australia. In the area she found 319 straws on a single 20-minute snorkel. 24 hours later Kasey went back and did another and found 294 in the exact same place.

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The following weekend, inspired by Kasey's actions, I jumped in for a dive and found another 150, highlighting just how quickly these plastic pollution accumulates.

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[h=3]Why are straws so damaging to the marine environment?[/h]Disposable straws are usually made from plastic and plastic never breaks down. As time goes by plastic will separate into smaller and smaller pieces, but never completely biodegrades.
In USA alone, 500 million straws are used every single day. We use straws for around twenty minutes before we toss them away, which is an astonishingly quick lifespan for an item that will be on the planet forever. Straws also contain BPA, and can't be recycled.
It can be hard to see how using one measly plastic straw is going to cause huge amounts of damage to the environment, but let me put in to context for you. Recently a team of scientists in Costa Rica came across an endangered species of sea turtle with what they thought was a parasitic worm blocking its airway. They realised it was actually a plastic straw. Hours from veterinary help, the scientists successfully dislodged the straw themselves and released the turtle back into the ocean. The team filmed their efforts, and you can watch the grim ordeal below.


While watching a distressed turtle have a straw pulled out of its nose isn't the most feel good viewing, footage like this plays an important and vital role in regards to raising awareness. This clip had more than 5 million views, and shows exactly what can happen if your discarded plastic straw makes its way into the ocean. Making a connection between our actions and the often-devastating outcomes they can have on the environment acts as a catalyst for change.
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[h=3]Say 'see ya later' to straws[/h]The simplest way you can eradicate straws from your life is to just stop using them at home. It's as easy as that.
When you're out and about, things can get a little trickier. When I'm at after work drinks I always ask the bartender to hold the straw. You might be met with a quizzical expression, but this is a great way to strike up a conversation with someone who might not be aware of the impact plastic straws have on the environment.
Cafes and restaurants are becomingly increasingly conscious of environmental issues, so creating a dialogue with your local barista or barman around the problem of single-use plastic is the first step towards initiating change.
[h=4]Read more: 5 Easy Steps To Quit Plastic[/h][h=3]But I love straws![/h]If you like slurping a smoothie through a straw that is totally ok! There are plenty of alternatives to disposable plastic straws available. Many retailers today stock glass, stainless steel, and bamboo straws. Biome has a huge reusable straw range that you can check out. Keeping one in a cutlery wrap and chucking it in your handbag means you'll never be caught out sans straw!
Educating your friends and family about how silly straws truly are will help motivate them to make the switch to straw-free. I'll admit it; I've used the line "that straw could end up in a turtles nose!" more times than I can count.
Saying no to straws seems like such a simple action, and it is. But actions like these really do make an enormous difference to our environment. Just ask that Costa Rican sea turtle.[h=4]Read this next: 15 Practical Tips for Living with Less Plastic[/h][h=4]1 Million Women is more than our name, it's our goal! We're building a movement of strong, inspirational women acting on climate change by leading low-carbon lives. To make sure that our message has an impact, we need more women adding their voice. We need to be louder. Joining us online means your voice and actions can be counted. We need you.[/h]

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Hollywood will probably come up with TV show. The vice squads will be wearing hidden cameras while they try to entrap people soliciting waiters for plastic straws. And there will be plastic straw pimps on the corners waiting for their cut.
:D
 
Rat, I literally do not give a single fuck about your lefty environmental bullshit. If you could convince lazy lefties to stop littering every chance they get, then perhaps I wouldn't have to be hearing about such a stupid and insane ban as straws.
 
Straws are for suckers. Let the damned have the straws. This is all they got in their wasted existence. This is the form of righteousness the damned have chosen. This is the eternal glory of the damned. Let them enjoy their glory. This is it for many.
 
I refuse to be inconvenienced by lazy people. We could always start passing insanely high fines for littering.

Back in the early 60s, I was going to the Beach with a friend. He threw his cigarette butt out the window and within 60 seconds the Police were pulling us over. They made my friend go back and pick up the cigarette butt, then gave him a $25 Ticket for Littering.
 
I have a pack of metal straws from Yeti and they are awesome. I don’t know what banning plastic straws is really going to do on it’s own but there are some cool alternatives to them.
 
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