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A comment on Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk. Parent comment

Re:Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, ... by wkat4242 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @08:02PM (#41920041)
> Paper straws are fighting plastic pollution not greenhouse gases, so comparing them makes no sense.

Yes and no.

These are almost never recycled and in a lot of places they are burned, not buried so they do emit CO2.

Unfortunately in Europe they replaced them with pfas coated paper which is worse for health and pollution (forever plastic)

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Re:Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, ... by simondotau on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @08:55PM (#41920457)
Generally speaking, products made from one material tend to be less bad than products made by glueing multiple materials together.
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