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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by konschubert on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:16AM (#17523632)
It's like walking home from work, seeing a house in flames, peeing into the fire and going home thinking "Today I did good".
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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by thinkingemote on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:20AM (#17523662)
Almost - I think it's like driving home from work, hearing about a house on fire on the radio news, then, when you get home, you pee and think "I'm doing my bit contributing to the water supply for the fire fighters."
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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by econochoice on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:25PM (#17524323)
This is closer, but I think the best analogy for this is hearing about the fire, deciding to never buy matches again and thinking that you're doing your part in preventing house fires.
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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by the_gastropod on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:19PM (#17524258)
C'mooooon. Are plastic straws the biggest problem facing the planet? No. But they do account for ~3% of the plastic in our oceans. Doing something here is absolutely better than doing nothing. As Churchill said: "Perfection is the Enemy of Progress". This is definitely progress.
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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by mhb on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#17525201)
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...all those billions of straws add up to only about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that yearly hits the waters.

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-science-amount-straws-plastic-...

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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by stephengillie on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:57PM (#17524617)
>But they do account for ~3% of the plastic in our oceans.

Source?

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Re:Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic by the_gastropod on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:09PM (#17525281)
https://get-green-now.com/environmental-impact-plastic-straw...

>And, as of early 2018, data from Ocean Conservancy’s TIDES system shows us that straws/stirrers are the 11th most found ocean trash in cleanups, making up about 3% of recovered trash.

Recovered trash is maybe be different than total trash?!

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