San Francisco Plastic Straw Ban
Debbie Raphael, director of San Francisco department of environment says nearly 70% of litter on the streets are plastic straws. Every day about 1 million plastic straws are used in San Francisco. The San Francisco board of supervisors voted to ban straws, and the band will take place in July of 2019. Starbucks also pledges to get rid of all straws by 2020.
I didn't know that so many straws were littered. I think that banning straws is inconvenient. banning straws could help reduce the amount of litter and trash on the streets but straws only make up a portion of littered material.
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I didn't know that so many straws were littered. I think that banning straws is inconvenient. banning straws could help reduce the amount of litter and trash on the streets but straws only make up a portion of littered material.
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This is interesting and I think its strange how straws are some of the first things being targeted for an all out ban but they are still bad for the environment. I think it would make more sense to ban things like plastic bags and the rings when you buy a six pack.
ReplyDeleteI think this article is interesting, as I never realized that one million plastic straws are used in San Francisco everyday. Moreover, decreasing the amount of straws and other plastic present in society will help the environment so overall, the impact is good. Even though people will have to get used to not using plastic straws, the environment will become better.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting because plastic straws are so small and insignificant to cause such a fuss to make a ban on them. It makes sense though because everyone uses straws and not many people properly dispose of them.
ReplyDeleteThis article is very interesting knowing that nearly 70% of litter on the streets is plastic straws. Although it seems to me that we are trying to fix these problems, especially areas around the ocean, some restaurants won't give any, which reduces the waste and the risk of hurting water life.
ReplyDeleteI think that is article is interesting, because even though having no more disposable straws might be an inconvenience to some people it is really helping the environment. There are also alternatives to disposable straws, they already have re-usable straws. So if everyone would buy re-usable straws it would completely solve this problem.
ReplyDeleteIts very interesting that 70% is straws. I am interested how Starbucks will get rid or there straws
ReplyDeleteThis is mid-blowing to me that one city can use 1 million plastic straws a day that's 365 million straws a year just in one city. And then the litter is 70% straws. It's a great idea to try and control the use and wastefulness of them. Bold move by San Francisco and Star Bucks, but thing its a good one.
ReplyDeletewow, I use plastic straws all the time. I can only imagine how hard it could be to make a ban like this effective. I do like the idea behind it, though.
ReplyDeleteAlthough this might be inconvenient in some cases I think this ban is a small step in the right direction. I think a small inconvenience, for us to help the environment, is worth it. In general I think we should use more reusable products to reduce the amount of waste we produce. Reusable straws (made from glass or metal) are great alternatives to plastic straws.
ReplyDeleteI think that instead of banning straws, we should switch to straws made of food, because then we wouldn't have to worry about waste from the straws. Also, while waste from straws is a problem, only banning straws won't help all that much, because straws aren't the only single-use plastics, there's also bottles, plastic utensils, plastic bags, and many other things, so of the 70% of single use plastics, how many are actually straws?
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting. Today I actually saw a sign in a restaurant that says that they don't use plastic straws because of their impact on the environment. I don't think plastic straws should be banned all together, but I do think that we could use less of them or use a reusable / washable version of a plastic straw.
ReplyDeleteI agree with his point that straws make up such a tiny portion of of litter but it's a good place to start. Seeing Starbucks is engaged in the change as well gives them a good look.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds very interesting as though there are many ways to save the environment such as this. This shows that there are many people in the world who are willing to step up to protect their environment.
ReplyDeleteThere are many places doing this outside of San Francisco, I know Delaware and many of the stadiums in NFL football are switching to paper straws.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting, and although I wanna help the environment I find it really bad for the economy and for society to just ban a tool that we use everyday.
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