Why Paper Straws FAILED 

THIS ^^^

Yes. Drink from a cup. Problem solved.

I also like how after the plastic bag ban, the bags got much much thicker so that using a bag now is like using 5 bags from before.

Make it make sense….

Yep, especially when I get a drink as order in and they give me the lid, I don't wanna give it back but I don't need a damn lid to drink at my table; I'm not some baby that needs a sippy cup

Hahahaha where's the lie

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Thoughts and prayers are at least accomplishing nothing. Paper straws are worse than nothing at all.

Crying about paper straws while saying there are other things to ban or restrict is literally whataboutism

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They suck, but NOT in the good way😡

I'm a fan of rinsing out and keeping my plastic straws, too. The only time to throw them away is when the mold/mildew

I would want to know why the cleaning is a problem for the silicone straws, but not for the others? For example, you wouldn’t have the same problem with metal/glass straws?

Yeah. I have stainless steel ones in various sizes and have the little silicone covers to deal with the heat issue, and I clean them. I have rushes in various sizes and all that. But I don't *need* them. If you NEED them (and it sounds like you legit do!) you should have access to them. People like me, who don't NEED them? We need to quit acting as if the world revolves around our convenience. For fuck's sake...people without a legitimate need for a straw (myself included) can just *DRINK THE DAMNED DRINK WITHOUT THE STUPID STRAW*. Do I prefer them? Sure. But I don't need them. Just like I don't need to have disposable flatware. I even bought flatware to bring to work to eat my lunch with, but I'm shit about doing that, and I'm shit about straws, and that's just frankly shitty of me, and I need to do better.

I really wasn't aware of that problem. There are people out there that really need their platic straws! Another option are glass and metal straws, with their own downsides.

Have you tried glass straws ? They last forever and don't conduct heat that much , yes they can break , but not easily

Yes, definitely!! This was the last straw (haha) for a lot of people and they stepped out of the environmental movement because of these exact reasons. Thanks for sharing here!

That's often the case with systemic problems in general--companies and organizations make it a personal problem rather than systemic, so that it's a problem with the consumer and what the consumer doesn't see, doesn't know is better for the corporations in general.

Totally agree, they did the same thing with plastic recycling in the first place.

This is soooooo true 💯. It's something I've often battled with. Coz even other smaller initiatives beyond the straws is basically still a good initiative but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the actual impact that large corporations are doing.

but global warming isnt caused by human

I was actually going to mention that. It rubs me the wrong way when they have paper straws but keep the single use plastic cups. Indicating to me that they want to look environmentally friendly without really trying that hard to actually be environmentally friendly.

Which company is that ?

McDonalds moved from paper cups w/ plastic straws to.. plastic cups with paper straws. It's actually asinine.@@athibantrk5172

Wooden straws would be incredibly expensive, and thus non-reusable. So you might as well use metal or plastic and simply reuse it. The ideal solution is to stop wasting straws. They're unnecessary for most of the things they're used for, so they can simply be removed without issue. And where they are necessary, you can use reusable straws. Both metal and plastic last a while and can be cleaned, thus you can use them many times before throwing them out.

@@jojomaster7675 You don't understand. I do not mean making a wooden straw, I mean making a "wooden" straw. MDF is a type of "wood" that is made from wood pulp and binding agents. Something similar to that, but with a more advanced (and yet undiscovered) binding agent to achieve thinness. Purely hypothetical... for now.

@@Handles_AreStupid Still would be expensive, so my point stands. And making up fantasy materials is not really gonna solve anything. I could go and say ideally we'd discover a biodegradable plastic and make it out of that, and it would be just as realistic of a solution as what you said. Because even if we discover a new, stronger biding agent, chances are it won't be biodegradable. So in the end, you just made a worse version of a metal straw.

@@jojomaster7675 Producing metal and plastic is also very expensive, that's why we do it in bulk. It's cheaper to spend $500,000 to produce a million than it would be to spend $500 to make 100. The bigger the scale, the cheaper the individual unit becomes. It off-sets R&D and machine costs + wages.

@@Handles_AreStupid Your point being? Metal is expensive, yes, but infinitely reusable. Even if it somehow gets damaged, stainless steel is incredibly easy to recycle, and can be recycled infinitely without losing value. Wood materials can't. Even with a fantasy miracle biding agent. Which, odds are would be even more expensive, as making a small, fine pipe out of wood material is much harder than out of steel. So in the end, your miracle biding agent wouldn't solve anything, really. It would just be a more expensive and harder to work with material than stainless steel. It would likely have a taste as well, which well kept steel does not.

theres quite alot of places that use aluminium or tin foil instead because its far easier to contain, can be recycled easily and tends to keep hot drinks hot for a good amount of time. the plastic lining is still very common though.

or do what costco does that you can pop the lid similar to coffee lids that you can drink through

A lot of them do that here in Denmark . And if it’s not to go you only get the cup without the lid

I carry utensils and straws in a pouch everywhere I go, but so many places just automatically give you plastic straws and forks, even if you ask for them to be excluded, because years of muscle memory is too hard to overcome.

McDonald's new cups are designed so that you don't need a straw, and they're not supposed to give you one unless you ask. But the vast majority of the time, they still give you one automatically.

but how the hell are you supposed to drink a slurpee without a straw?

Hmm i wonder from what kind of metal is made, i think titanium doesn't ruin the taste (most tooth implants are made from titanium, and there haven't been evidence of ruining taste). If you can find titanium straw it should improve that. Titanium is one of the most biocompatible metals. Bamboo straw is also another option.

@@ristekostadinov2820 the bad taste comment was in reference to the paper straw not the metal

@@christopherhicks8107 oh sorry i miss read.

@@ristekostadinov2820 no worries, I probably missed punctuation somewhere

Pasta and bamboo straw are better mostly.

sippy lids? what like coke cans?

​@@unboxing_legend7708yes but it pokes out and can be open and closed

I prefer a straw

Yea that’s a HUGE NO for me straw lives matter

agreed, sippy lid supremacy

Really?? That's..... That's really something, eh?

i already see the yellow freshco and green dollarama eco bags littered at parks

So now at the LCBO they put your order in some of the boxes they have leftover... I prefer a box to a paper bag... Reuse is better than anything isn't it?😅

@@christophermiller3031 Not enough boxes for all those drinkers. They will sell reusable totes, I'm sure. You remember Knob Hill Farms?

In the UK we just skipped right past the paper bag thing and went to 'reusable' bags. Now most people will carry a tote if they are going shopping

if only there was more incentives to open viable composting facilities. Is there any use for the plastic compost? Can it be sold back to farmers in bulk to improve the soil for agriculture?

Also if they are able to be composted with the rest of compost, wouldn't the process start when you put it in some sort of liquid (regardless of its temp)? Thus, making it kind of pointless. I feel like this thought process is what led to PLA (industrially compostable) straws and flatware.

Home composting machines are starting to become more accessible. You have the Lomi which claims to be able to compost those types of plastics. Even if you don't, wouldn't you say that it's still better for the environment to use it in place of traditional plastic because it isn't leaching the same chemicals? I know PLA isn't the end all solution but it's a step in the right direction.

Question: what if I unknowingly put PLA into my compost? Does it just sit there and be inert micrpplastic or can it harm my pile and my plants?

@@phuongle6670 PLA requires 114 degrees Fahrenheit to begin breaking down its hydrogen bonds. This is unlikely to occur in your home compost. It’s also unlikely to harm your plants in any meaningful way. As part of its compostability certification PLA products must pass a germination test. In this test the degraded product is added to soil and seeds. The germination of the terrarium is compared to that of a control. The compostability certification is only given if there is no I’ll effect on germination caused by the product in question.

Dude what 💀 this makes way more sense. I can only imagine there isn't a shift because manufacturers don't like the cost?

Well, reed straws are a byproduct more or less. The main thing is reed for roofing. They are also sold seasonally because reed needs time to grow and dry after harvest. I know how many straws I need in a year and do stock up annually. Reed straws are expensive, three times as expensive as paper straws and sometimes there is a grassy aftertaste... natural product what can you do? So it is a very niche product. It works for me cause there are reed-roofed houses here and so it was an easy adjustment but it is not an easy solution for all strawy needs, you need the right reed for that and in those masses we use straws it would not work.... another fun fact McDonalds here has done away with straws altogether and is testing some sippy like cover for all drinks except milkshakes I wonder it that will take off.

That's because it's cheaper and "safer" than standard glue.

Nor is it vegan

Exactly! 😅 Thanks for sharing here 🙏

Honestly I think the idea of metal reusable and cleaneable straws are better, no need to keep buying new straws and no waste of any kind, even paper straw create, a while short lived, some waste that go to landfields. I just think it's better to have a mentality of having things that can be reused as much as possible. In my house we reuse pretty much anything, groceries bags while not ideal we use for trash bags. Soda bottles we use as personal water bottles, glass bottles we use for things too. Dunno feels like it's far more useful while still being a little enviromentally concious. But at the end of the day what really needs to change is big corporations. The effect we create pale in comparison to them.

The irony of the fishing net problem is there is a market for used fishing nets as decoration. So when the Chinese fisherman (statistically the a the country that litter the ocean the most) throw out there used nets they are literally growing out money.

@@somad6997 Straws still have some use at least, hospital and disability. I think if people really want them at least it's better to have metal ones

​@@Despoina_Nyxthe problem with reusable straws is that they aren't practical. You need to be able to clean them whether it is metal or silicone and you would need to fully clean them out between uses. It is time consuming and not at all easy to do, especially on a vacation.

Oooo we've got plenty to talk about PFAS in our upcoming videos about water quality and other household goodies ..... Excited to dive into this subject!

@@FutureProofTV Love it!!!

First thing that came to mind, PFAS in paper straws!

This is why I stopped using paper straws. They gave things a bizarre taste which could only be unknown additives which will one day be banned

​@@Valoric fun fact : most of these PFAS found in some of these straws are already banned

Being seriously disabled myself, although a newcomer to the channel, I think hiring a disability consultant might be going 'a little far'; not that I see any intrinsic problem with it, as long as the consultancy fee would be affordable. That said, I think *legislators* should be _obliged_ to consult with disability groups when it comes to issues like this; more than one, preferably, as disability groups, no less than any other types of NGO, are riven with (ulterior) special interests, factions, politics, dissenting opinions and so on.

@@richiehoyt8487 ​ I absolutely agree that legislators should be required to do all of the above! The reason I recommend it for this channel is because Future Proof examines a large number of products and their merits and drawbacks from an environmental and social perspective, and a lot of the time products that are considered superfluous by the masses (and the main creator and the comments section) are hugely important to the well being of myself and others who are disabled. After all, disability is a part of the social perspective. Honestly, I think that most content creators could stand to take a step back and learn about the world from a lens of accessibility, but where environmentalism and products intersect is a huge place where I don't usually see it and would like to see more. Also, a channel of this size can be a one-man band, but sometimes they have multiple staff members, so if they're in the habit of employing people, it's a great choice.

That's definitely the best way to do it. Makes sure the perspective is factual as well - so easy to tip the other way "thinking of others" without actually consulting the people affected.

I use single-use plastic bottles all the time, but only because I can't stand still water and only like carbonated water. If only there was a fizzy water trap...

I keep plastic straws at home and reuse them. It's honestly not that hard, and they last a while.

People with disabilities who rely on straws to more safely consume beverages, drink coffee and tea just like others and they mau want their coffee or tea just as hot as anyone else. Theres NO replacement straw that is as versatile and safe to use as a plastic straw is. Metal gets too hot when drinking hot beverages and should someone have a sudden spasm or seizure just as they're about to take a sip, a metal (or glass or hard plastic) straw could potentially cause severe injury because they're hard materials that doesn't give way, unlike the single use plastic straw that give way along with being adjustable to fit different cups and different needs. Bendable single use plastic straws saves lives and a lot of people rely on those straws! Paper straws are both nasty, bad for the environment and unsafe. They lose their structural integrity too fast and them dissolving so fast could become a choking hazars as pieces of the straw could simply come off, even more so in hot beverages

​@@YujiUedaFanGet yourself a Sodastream, then you can carbonate water yourself (and flavor it if wanting to) and the bottles are good for years unless you outright break them (like dropping, bumping etc that could impact the integrity). I bought myself a Sodastream earlier this year, March I think, as I don't do well with still water and got tired of carrying home soda bottles all the time. I now make my own Pepsi Max at home and unless my bottles break, they're good until 2025 (Yes, the plastic bottles at least for Sodastream does have a best before date, it's for safety reasons as plastic becomes more brittle over time and the pressure inside the bottle gets pretty high when you carbonate the water. If ignoring the date on the bottle, you could be at an increased risk of having a bottle explode on you)

@@ReyOfLight I mean, metal straws don't actually get hot that quick if they're thick and long enough. If a beverage is hot enough to heat up a metal straw to uncomfortable levels fast enough before the liquid cools, then chances are you shouldn't be drinking such a beverage, as doing so will burn your throat. And chances are that cheap, single use plastic might start to give way and melt at such tempatures. So in reality, there is no straw that's perfect for hot drinks.

In Germany the straws are wrapped in paper in a tray and you take one if you need it

In Indonesian, there is no straw at all, most restaurant in here just expect you to drink straight from the cup

​@@outrowedeven milkshakes?

@@juanrocky8147 You should try drinking a milkshake without a straw. It tastes so much better without it, no matter what kind of straw you'd use.

i dont think its an enforcement for resturants to do however they do still need to follow health and safety regulations laws and more which is why they likely still do it regardless. i worked as a food and beverage assistant so this was something i had to play close attention to all the time, however in this case it wasnt with cup lids and straws but guest requests, food allergies in all foods, making sure every food item that hasnt got a lable was labeled with the food allergies they contain thats above 1% otherwise it doesnt have to be labeled, and we even did e learning on something called natasha's law. in summery of natasha's law, a law was made after, i think 15 yr old girl named natasha in which died to a food related allergy in a cafe store because a muffin made in the store, was sold unpackaged, un labeled and there wasnt a law at the time that required food made within the store such as baked food to be labeled with allergies. natasha was apparently unaware of her allergy to yeast before she had whatever it was and she passed away due to the allergy. overtime the law was passed on and made to crack down on loopholes within the food industry to have correctly labeled food, for health and safety requirements to be met and for the people who serve you to show and or have the correct knowledge of the food products and their allergies if not on the menu or any other form of way. failing to get it right now, and causing a person a allergic reactive problem can result in i think a 23 yr imprisonment however im likely wrong here.

I agree, the last generation of old paper straws may have been plastic coated, as were the milk/OJ cartons, but the earlier ones were wax coated. Paper straws were one of my favorite playthings as a six year old. Part of the issue is also the diameter. You need a bigger diameter for a shake than a soda. A few weeks ago I had a nice paper straw somewhere. I wonder also about the quality of the paper. The ancient paper bags of that era were made of more dense and thicker paper. Maybe the straws were also. I remember particularly about the milk cartons because we used to make candles in them and the plastic coated milk cartons were bad news for that.

no you said it your self. cheaper resturants. cheaper resturants tend to fork out on cheaper products because they simply dont have the money to fork out on something better for the customer. just because a mcdonalds resturant is labeled mcdonalds, it doesnt mean that this particular store is going to be top notch, it depends on the location, the size of the resturant they own and who works their and the standards they keep up with. ive seen mcdonalds stores before in which are very piss poor all around while the one nearest me thrives. the one i go to is of mostly great quality. they even have a cleaner going around the resturant constantly cleaning those self buying machine things, the IPADS they have installed for kids at some tables, cleaning the seats and all that as well and even the seating area at the windows where u sit on stools that are high up looking out the resturant while eating and chatting. food almost always comes hot and drinks almost always comes cold even with deliveries. the milkshake/mcflurry machine is usually only on during specific hours of the day instead of randomly being down like other mcdonald places and just a great environment to be in.

Metal straws are cheaper and the best option if you don't drink anything hot.

@@YujiUedaFan Why would you drink something hot out of a straw? You're gonna burn your mouth that way.

@@theuncalledfor I don't, I was just saying it in case they did.

@@YujiUedaFan Take it as a general point, then. If the beverage is too hot for a metal straw to be safe to touch, it's too hot to drink from a straw at all. Let it cool, or sip it (thus cooling it while transporting it into your mouth). Metal straws are as good for hot beverages as a straw can be.

@@frankthefkintankSame here. I’ve noticed that I’ll drink more fluids if I use straws (I’m chronically dehydrated) so I bought a bunch of steel ones.

I keep one in my bag and use it in fast food places instead of the paper ones they give with their drinks, or I'll just drink out of the glass if it's a nicer place

@@proxytag I honestly would love to do this but I'm always so forgetful that I think it would stay in my bag for months without being used. But this is a great idea regardless.

My face sucks just fine, straws are just silly if you don't need one.

I think that one of the potentially overlooked benefits to straws is that if you drink drinks that are bad for your teeth like coffee and pop drinks it could reduce the damage to the teeth by reducing the contact between the drink and the teeth

Oooooh my goodness this sounds adorably frustrating 😢

​​@@FutureProofTV​ It was yes 😂 She loves being independent so she always tries first before asking for help, but in this she always fails since she still can't gauge how much strength to use. It's adorable seeing her face scrunch up, but I also feel for her 😂

I don't understand this. I grew up on paper straws, and there was never an issue with them. Just get her a sippy cup and put the drinks in that while traveling. This really isn't that hard.

​@@shakeyj4523 At home, maybe not, but when travelling, a sippy - cup is hardly a viable solution for milk based drinks - you know, washing up and all that? I can see 'getting away with it' for 'soda - pop' type drinks, especially if sugar free, but a plastic cup used over and over for milk drinks is going to get pretty 'grodey' before long, especially if it's in the environment of a hot car. Besides, unless one leads a *literally* nomadic life - style, is it _really_ going to be the end of the world if a family uses disposable straws for a week or two, maybe, out of every year, especially when the cartons are (pretty much of necessity) going to be child~sized and 'disposable' _anyway?_ Although the cartons are to a 99% certainty going to be, in fact, recyclable, if one is _really_ worried about it. Would washing up even be _viable_ while travelling? Add in heating the water, using detergents, etc, how much net benefit to the environment would there _be,_ even? Another issue, while I'm not a proponent of treating children as coddled little princes and princesses, as is the current fashion, I could imagine a child aged, say, 4 - 6 seeing the use of a sippy - cup as an enforced regression to 'baby'~hood, and rebelling (I would sympathize!) - causing problems that would unnecessarily add to the stresses already inherent in a road - trip, flying, taking a ferry or whatever. All in all, sounds hard enough to _me..._

@@richiehoyt8487 You are joking right? You have to be because your comment is profoundly silly.

That metal straw likely took more energy to produce then all plastic straws you might use in a lifetime combined.

I'm exactly like you. There are no plastic disposable straws to be found anymore in my country. At home I have a few kind of glass/plastic non disposable (washable) ones and plastic disposable ones I bring from abroad when traveling. Funny thing is that even the disposable one I sometimes use for 2 or 3 drinks throughout the day if not more. With paper straws I could never do that. They're the worst waste I can imagine in the sense of uselessness. On a individual level I'm actually never having kids. Putting a human on the planet is very wasteful. So whenever people come and complain that I use plastic straws I tell them first I'm allowed since it doesn't matter anyways because of all the pollution when I fly. And then people complain that I fly I tell them allowed since I'm not putting another human on the planet. 😂 and also I work in aviation and have worked in human rights since for ever and every single day I learn again and again that what I do individually is more about me being able to show of to others rather than actually having any impact.

I'm in your boat. It's insane how much pollution comes from big industry and how little difference small changes like plastic straws can make. If anything we need to decrease wasteful consumerism but people these days are too conceited to do that. Stacy needs her weekly new clothing item that she'll only wear once or twice then throw away.

I just saved a few plastic straws and reuse them. Easy and way less expensive than the metal or silicone ones. If you are going to reuse straws anyway, just reuse plastice ones.

​​@@uriahthehittite1672Silicone are also plastic, Sherlock

But not all plastic is silicone. Not that either fact diminishes the point. Plastic straws are already everywhere, so it's easy to just keep one you've already got and stop using more of them.

Just say you used your crack pipe to suck up a milkshake, bro.

This isn’t a vlog, it’s a video essay

Are you one of those annoying oil protest "people" who block the road for attention?

​@@ErvinabrahamianBro why would you assume that💀?

Your point? Its a straw vs a car of fucking course the car would consume more energy in its scenario. Glad you're in product design and not chemistry.

Well, the problem isn't how much energy it takes to manufacture a straw, it's how long it takes for that straw to fully decompose.

​@@nicolelin9543I've seen idiotic tree-hugging hippies actually defend the paper straws. It should have never been put out to the public. The one job of a product is to do what it's supposed to do and the paper straws disintegrate before you finish.

Never, ever had a store "reprimand me for bringing my own bags" despite doing so at every trip for decades ... this is something that happens to you... frequently?

@@TehAwesomer Not frequently, but for past few decades stores have had sings at entrance either strictly forbidding bringing your own bags or demanding cashiers be allowed to look into them. These days that has lessened, but many stores still do have some sort of signage that discourages bringing bags onto the premises. Though that is not the case in my area I do hear about stores in the US and UK adopting some bag search policies as of late.

@@Frag-ileAh, I see. Yeah, bringing a backpack or large purse/handbag which already has stuff in it is definitely discouraged in some kinds of stores. I was thinking of the grocery case, where I bring empty "tote" style grocery bags and have never had anyone question me doing so. Thanks for the nice response!

Pretty much any store selling non-necessities (AKA stores that would be in a mall) see bringing your own bags as an attempt at theft. I have regularly been asked to leave my bags behind the cash register while I shop.

bags are expensive due to the recession, its mostly an unrelated issue. its a way to scrape just a bit more money overtime. once one store did it, everyone else pretty much followed depending on how desperate they were and their marketing strategy for each store. take this as an example: my local co-op which isnt under the name of co-op but works with that company sells my favourite energy drinks and quite alot of them in the store, in the store, these energy drinks vary in price depending on which colour and if its caffinated, some range from £1.35 some up to £1.79 per can. this also accounts for size btw. now i can go into a corner store that sells the exact same energy drinks in the store however these are all priced at £1.00 despite on the cans specifically being labeled at the price they should be sold for. its because its a marketing strategy. when u go to alot of corner stores that arnt these big brands, u can usually get away with buying them underage and they not asking you for ID. its a marketing strategy though because of the fact that they know that it adhears to the younger kids rather than most adults and compared to a large corperation that run stores around the globe, a measly corner store can get away with cheapening prices because it means that people will buy more from them and will seep more money into them overtime for them to grow bigger.

It's so performative!!!

Did you know according to some research from a co2 product life cycle perspective disposable drink cups cause less global warming than a regular coffee cup that has to be washed by the establishment. No idea if that research is correct but I am just trying to say that things aren't often as clear cut as they seem on the surface.

In theory, the full plastic cup is made of a recyclable type of plastic, whereas a plastic lined paper cup is a mixed plastic/paper product that isn't recyclable. Not that most fast food restaurants have recycle bins or anything...but technically, the full plastic cup could be more sustainable...

⁠well a non biodegradable and non recyclable plastic lined paper cup is just as performative, except it can't be made better by systemic change (aka more recycling plants)

@@somad6997 I already acknowledged that plastic recycling isn't perfect. You've added nothing that I didn't mention. I'll point out that the recycling rate of type 1 plastic cups is greater than 0, whatever circumstances that need to occur for that to happen (someone takes the cup to-go, happens to live in a munipicality setup to recycle type 1, whoever is running recycling finds a buyer that week, etc). The option of a mixed paper/plastic lined cup has a recyclablity of literally 0%. The plastic cup, whether it has a 50%, 5%, or 0.5% rate of recycling, it is absolutely greater than 0%. The choice is obvious which one is worse.

It's a whooole nother conversation but plant based plastics are popping up more and more too... seems like coming up with more "solutions" to the disposables problem isn't all that helpful ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

compostable "plastic" could be a godsend but we playin

I recently learned that for something to be called compostable, it has to break down in a similar way to cellulose and must not leave anything behind that is harmful or undesireable. Things that are called biodegradable don't have any standards to meet and thus break down into things that we don't want. These compostable straws are not petrochemical plastic and break down into stuff that is useful to a compost. @@guacamojo

But you can eat the paper straw after....

Those straws also cost orders of magnitude more than plastic straws. And there's enough landfill space to store all the plastic waste ever until the end of time. The straws are literally just a stunt.

I like that idea. You could use a deposit system to encourage customers to bring the bags back; ex it costs $1, but if you return the bag you get $1 back. It’s so frustrating when you forget bags and have to either carry everything in your hands, or buy brand new “cloth” bags that are made of plastic, even though you already have 75 at home.

Almost every grocery store has a bag recycling bin. But people just don't use them.

@@marcmoomaw4781 It doesn't really matter because recycling anything other than metal is a waste of resources. You create more waste than you get back. It's very simple to figure out. People will gladly pay you for your metal scrap. Your plastic and paper you have to pay them to take.

@@Furluge I find plastic bags the best for bathroom bins TBH, so reusing them for that is better than nothing IG.

Hahahaha love the idea of everybody drinking some Starbucks fraps out of the bucattini....

As a person allergic to both wheat and apples, this terrifies me. More reason to carry your own straw if you need them.

Among the alternative straw materials, the agave fiber ones are my fave. They actually survive extended contact with liquids.

Wouldn't it add a taste to your drink though?

I need straws to keep ice cubes away from my teeth.

​@@davidfrischknecht8261i need straws to take the ice cubes out of the glass 😂

Plastic straw debacle is bullshit and i could debate anyone on this confidently. Anyone who thinks that they are saving the planet by eliminating plastic straws is a fucking moron 😂😂😂😂.

Sensodyne sells around $196.7 million in sales. Everyone of of those people is going to probably suffer from tooth pain without using a straw. I know because I used to have that exact problem before I started using it. Straws can also make it easier to swallow pills.

I need straw to avoid gulping down the drink too quickly and risk having some going into my windpipe.

Now we're talking hahahaha

I don't think it's that simple

The problem is pollution. If you take paper and plastic and they both get disposed in a landfill the plastics technically greener. But people take zero responsibility for their waste.

a "paper" cup is actually paper coated in plastic

Nobody wants a paper cup…

Sounds great for loose liquids like soft drinks, but can't imagine drinking a milkshake out of it

I was always told never to use a straw in a hot drink; it's a cold-drink-only kind of tool.

You can badly scorch the inside of your mouth and maybe even down your throat with a straw in a hot drink.

​@kitefan1 My thoughts exactly, you don't have the same control like sipping from a cup.

Would be interested in seeing a comparison between these items!

Yeah I still dont understand why didnt wax it with an edible wax type.

the wonders of german engineering

I am not sure that pissing off your customer base is good for the bottom line.

@@jerrymiller9039 I'm not sure why you would be pissed off about not receiving a straw with your drink. I assume you're not disabled and have mastered the skill of drinking out of a cup/glass. Let me ask you this, do you use straws at home? If not, why do you need them at a restaurant. If you do use them at home...uh why? It pisses me off when drinks come with straws or the waiter throws down a bunch of straws without asking if I wanted them.

We use roughly 500 million straws in the US each day. If people did not like them they would not be used in massive numbers.@@xungnham1388

I just looked this up and while it's true, the fact is that PFAS is kind of unavoidable and found everywhere.

I prefer cardboard, I always hate seeing dirty plastic straws thrown on the ground, with cardboard it is easy to solve, the idiots who throw it on the ground no longer matter because it will still break easily after rain.

@@mollitow1323 Thanks for your response! I agree with you, cardboard and paper decompose much faster.

I seen a Cacti based plastic somewhere... Probably Daily dose of Internet.

and idk why would anyone ever need a straw for drinking... well, at least we agree on one half of the issue.

⁠@@jmi5969did you watch the whole video? There is a specific group of people mentioned in the video who need straws (otherwise they need a feeding tube)

@@johndeaux8815 This isn't about disabilities. Some people need straws to survive, some need diapers - but why should a healthy person do it?

@@jmi5969 hey I wasn’t the one saying idk why ANYONE would EVER need a straw for drinking. Seems like you misunderstand the meaning of those words

Enjoy it while it lasts because every country in the world is probably going to eventually have stupid paper straws forced on everyone

@@insertusernamehere8125 when that happens, I'm just gonna order hot drinks xD

@@nanatsureina but what about when you want cold drinks

@@nanatsureina (paper straws get absolutely decimated by cold drinks)

celiacs can't use those.

​@@kitefan1Metal straws then?

@@karolinakuc4783 😃Yeah, or glass?

when you make a long comment, but no one replies :(

They're good for sensitive teeth and I honestly hate getting my lips all over the rim on a restaurant cup.

They’re also great for people like me who can’t hold multiple things in their head without short circuiting. Having to hold a glass, tip it, deal with the ice… every individual piece gets hyper focused on; throw a conversation or work in to that mix and I spill or drop cups constantly. Keeping the glass or cup on the table and using a straw is how I stay relatively clean during a day. Or one of them. Just the other day I came home. My roommate was outside. She asked me to do a thing and in order for my brain to switch gears from what I was holding in my hands to me thinking about going up the stairs to get the thing, I dropped everything in my hands, including the cup, I had, and it shattered. Straws for general people don’t seem that big of a deal and I get that but they are in necessity outside of hospitals for some of us just to make day-to-day living a little bit easier. My collection of various sized metal ones go everywhere with me when I travel and I’ve a couple in my bag for restaurants and the office. So yes. Some of us do use them

.........reaaaally good point tbh

It definitely marrs the taste

Paper straws

Hot take: you don't have children.

Hahahaha I mean not all paper straws are created equal - some of these wouldn't last through an episode of the Simpsons

​@@FutureProofTVI've had ones that started to self destruct in the time between ordering and receiving my food.

so? ion wanna rush

I take it there are no women in your life.

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