For years my reaction to this has always been the same. Who uses straws?
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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i use them pretty much exclusively but i have a collection of glass ones i reuse. i have a weird thing about drinking from an open cup so i always have a lid/straw.
Listen, I'm totally down for bioplastic straws. They've got a different texture and are far more brittle, but still compostable and lasts more than long enough for me to enjoy my drink.
I don't get why customers at my work hate them so much. To the point some will bring their own straws if we don't have the regular plastic milkshake straws. It's weird...
Compostable garbage is still garbage. In a landfill it doesn't decompose properly and causes methane, which is worse than CO2.
Point is, the whole thing is stupid unless we do proper composting. So I kinda get byo-straws.
What about a noodle shaped into a straw? Even if you toss it out the window at least it's biodegradable.
As long as it goes out the window and not into a landfill, that's good
You heard it here, throw your biostraws into a ditch!
Yes!
Except most of those are only compostable in industrial compost settings. Side of the road isn't hot enough.
That will surely bring down the price of eggs.
Wimpy effeminate plastic straws? Ha! Real men use metal straws. Tin/lead if that's all you can afford, or depleted uranium if you're a real player.
TBH, paper straws suck. And not because they fall apart, which is annoying but not the end of the world.... But because they're full of PFAS.... Yeah, not fucking great.
Sources:
https://www.popsci.com/environment/forever-chemicals-paper-straws/
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-turns-out-paper-straws-might-pose-a-serious-problem-too
I’ve never understood why we need straws. I get it for a milkshake but I don’t understand why a restaurant gives me a glass with a straw in it. Do people use straws at home?
There's a few things, like you said some things truly do require a straw like a milkshake, or slushies, tbf they are "fun" even if that's not a great reason, but I think the real reason people got hooked on them is drive throughs, they are undoubtedly much easier when you are driving.
Drink from the glass like an adult?
Part of me finds it sad that the "green" option is not only shit but actually worse.
The other part of me is laughing because that's the best snacking my doomer-ism has had for a while.
I can't imagine normal plastic straws great for microplastics
Wooden straws ftw
glass for me. that way i know they get completely clean
Bamboo straws are also often coated with PFAS.
Glass straws seem like a good option. I've got some re-useable ones, but I bet recycling them would be feasible. We already do it for glass bottles
I have some silicone ones that I really like too, they open up like a zipper making them really easy to clean. Silicone is technically recyclable as well, though that is rarely done.
Borosillicste straws?
Soda lime straws.
Not the ones I've made from the stand of bamboo, over there.
I think a much more helpful replacement would be replacing the plastic tops with recycled paper tops.
If I'm not mistaken he already started a fight against windmills. Paper straws must be an ally of that great enemy.
Lol Donald "Quixote" Trump
He can’t even drink water with one hand, my money’s on the straws.
Real problems finally solved. ✅
I mean.... It kind of is. I'm pretty happy. I'm the dystopia we live in got take the small wins
Doesn't Don Jr. use rolled up hundreds?
Not for drinking. That's for ... something else.