<story><title>Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic</title><url>https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-see-the-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgbmtl</author><text>This article is rather cranky and make two assumptions: 1) that plastic is often trashed, not recycled, and it assumes that we will never fix that. 2) exemptions will not be made for people with disabilities.&lt;p&gt;Also, would compostable straws be an option? (assuming they do not end up in the landfill, and only distributed on demand to reduce waste).&lt;p&gt;Fast food better fix itself, or we will end up demonizing the entire industry, for its abundance of litter all over the place and subsidizing the cleanup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinator</author><text>&amp;gt; 1) that plastic is often trashed, not recycled, and it assumes that we will never fix that.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry to say, but recycling plastic doesn&amp;#x27;t work all that well. I believe one problem is that straws couldn&amp;#x27;t be recycled (and I think these lids can?), but then the next problem is, who is going to recycle all this plastic [0] and what is the recycled product going to be? You can&amp;#x27;t make a new lid out of an old on, unfortunately.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17368168&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17368168&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic</title><url>https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-see-the-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgbmtl</author><text>This article is rather cranky and make two assumptions: 1) that plastic is often trashed, not recycled, and it assumes that we will never fix that. 2) exemptions will not be made for people with disabilities.&lt;p&gt;Also, would compostable straws be an option? (assuming they do not end up in the landfill, and only distributed on demand to reduce waste).&lt;p&gt;Fast food better fix itself, or we will end up demonizing the entire industry, for its abundance of litter all over the place and subsidizing the cleanup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>Even if they are trashed, does it even matter unless they make it into the ocean? It&amp;#x27;s not like any continent has a shortage on wasteland to build more landfills in.</text></comment>