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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:01AM (#19673217)
How will any individual's actions counteract the approval of a single fracking or tar sand site? Or the choice by a supermarket to package everything in plastic, and continue to add to this in 2019? Or any other multi-national?

Starbucks straw-free solution was a plastic lid that uses more plastic than the straw.

Family made major changes, but it feels increasingly pointless, and increasingly like spiting ourselves for no reason. Every shop brings home more plastic, used in ever more profligate ways, and mostly impossible to avoid. What was the point changing?

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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by ethagnawl on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:18PM (#19674928)
> Starbucks straw-free solution was a plastic lid that uses more plastic than the straw.

This may be true, but it was still a worthwhile initiative. The new lids can be recycled, whereas the straws couldn't[0], and their new policy has drawn a considerable amount of attention to the issue of single use plastics.

0: https://mic.com/articles/190171/starbucks-will-ban-plastic-s...

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Re:Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind by dd36 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:58AM (#19673640)
It’s cumulative. Single use plastic should be highly taxed.
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