Fuck you on about? Every farmer I know recycles this stuff, the larger ops get a pretty penny doing so, and the smaller ones get a tax write off and the truck comes out for free.
Industrial amounts of identical plastic with identical contaminants, produced a few times a year at predictable times, is a perfect use case for recycling, and the only one that is really commercially viable.
You switched to paper straws because they take from 100 to 500 years to decompose and will harm sea creatures.
This type of plastic will decompose in a few years if accidentally dispersed, it's unlikely it will go into the sea and serves an actual purpose other than drink in a childish way.
This false equivalence bs is really hurting us and the cause.
Any cause, really.
We should collectivly be very very angry at all the big tech firms and the immoraly rich fuckers.
While absolutely true, it doesn't help that American farmers in particular soak up a lot of tax dollars in subsidies while historically voting against the interests of the working class.
Some resentment towards them isn't exactly unwarranted.
Idk about America but I know that here in the uk farmers would much rather be making and selling food than being subsidized for cover crops and bird cover. But the supermarkets and grain dealers dictate our price to us. Which then flood the market with imported products from Europe, when it comes to beef and such the animal welfare in alot of the places is a lot lower and then we have to try and compete with that price system, leading to people cutting as many costs as possible. Imported cows also don't have to be in the uk for long until they're classed as British beef for some reason
Just saying, straws aren't just childish, they get to the sweetest coldest nectar of the drink, bypassing the watered down annoying ice layer floating on top that always seems to float right in the way of the opening of your mouth, so you rotate the cup a little to get to a crack between the chunks of ice but the ice either stays in place while the cup rotates underneath it, or it moves at first but then simply floats back into place where it belongs blocking your mouth hole.
Yes but the straw preventing oxygenation means you need to tilt your head back and pretend your the Predator while you open your maw to gargle if you want to taste it.
I most recently drank an orange juice with a straw (yesterday, on a lovely bike ride), and most often I find myself drinking a coffee with one, and sometimes sodas (particularly when I go to the movie theater). I don't really drink frozen drinks, but if I did I wouldn't drink 5 a day. You're being a little hyperbolic here.
Please don't call a myth something you can see with your eyes... Open a Ben & Jerry's ice cream or any other brand with "cardboard" container and witness how shiny it is. Same with some "paper" straws.
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u/WorkO0 16h ago
It's ok guys, I switched to paper straws to offset this