On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 12:05:10 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> They are doing this so Gary sees no more turtles suffering from them
>
> https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/62722...plastic-straws
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...709-story.html
> Though plastic drinking straws have become one of the more high-profile
> issues environmentally, they make up only about 4% of the plastic trash
> by number of pieces, and far less by weight. Straws add up to about
> 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in
> waters around the globe each year.

Gotta start somewhere. Straws are, in the main, unnecessary. Might
as well eliminate them. People who need to sip their latte through
a straw will just have to bring one with.

Cindy Hamilton