able to have one, or should the government have the right to bear my freedom on that? first of all, i m not for straw bands, i never have been. i m for source reduction of single use plastics, so i am all for our landfills are overflowing. there is a lot of plastic everywhere where it doesn t belong. we don t have a handle on it, so you can point fingers to other countries, but we don t even handle it well in our own country. martha: but you are saying you are for a forced band? it s not a forced band, i think every community can say what and what cannot be acceptable. we are all taxed, our landfills are overflowing. if there s better alternatives out there that they can handle ghost we went to give you the paper straw, which collapses and doesn t work, and they put it in a huge plastic covered cup, i m not sure that that s getting us anywhere, is