On 2018-07-10 8:22 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 7/9/2018 9:43 PM, wrote:
>> On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 11:05:10 AM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> I don't partake of anything Starbucks offers but I appreciate a straw
>> with
>> whatever fountain drink I get at whatever establishment.
>
> I had lunch at some chain restaurant the other day and was surprised
> to find my straw was not plastic but heavy paper.Â* Worked just fine.
>

We had paper straws for many years before they started to make them out
of plastic.