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Are an irrelevant part of america's very real garbage epidemic. a recent clean up of the river found 36 tons of trash. now, within that 36 tons were 4,000 drinking straws. that's about 4 pounds of straws total or 1/18,000th of the total waste. when it comes to plastic waste that is hurting the environment and there is an awful lot of it and yes it is hurting the environment. drinking straws from this country are irrelevant. what is relevant? where is all this litter coming from, litter that's hurting the environment? well, millions of tons of plastics enter the world's oceans every year and no...

The result was more litter. in san francisco's iconic delores park, massive amounts, mountains of litter have piled up but city officials almost never issue fines for litter. they don't enforce the law. when lawmakers propose tougher penalties for littering it was rejected, why? part on the grounds banning littering would be discriminatory against the poor and homeless and many other groups. city task force on fines warned financial penalties can make government a driver of inequality not an equalizer. okay. but what about the environment you claim to care about? well, they don't care, it turn...

Conventional straws and anyone who has used them can tell you they are not very effective. they don't work. we have to get used to them because across the country plastic straws are disappearing. in addition to washington, d.c. seattle has banned them as well. starbucks planned to ban nationwide and worldwide. many other nation also follow suit. and so as so often happens life for ordinary people gets a little bit worse. this one time, let's pause and ask how exactly did this happen? well, like countless other modern trends, this is a moral panic. activist also tell you americans use about 500...

Are an irrelevant part of america's very real garbage epidemic. a recent clean up of the river in washington found 36 tons of trash. now within that 36 tons were 4,000 drinking straws. that's about 4 pounds of straws total, or 1/18,000th of the total waste. so when it comes to plastic waste that is hurting the environment, and there is an awful lot of it, and yes, it is hurting the environment, drinking straws from this country are irrelevant. so what is relevant? where is all this litter coming from, litter that's hurting the environment? well, millions of tons of plastics enter the world's o...

China that would never even occur to them. so america's environmentalists, america is the villain. china is not. ever. so the obsession over plastic straws as you can see a microcosm of how our rulers view the world at large. for them, problems are always solved by making life a little worse for ordinary people while ignoring the actual problems that in many cases they caused. regular people have worse straws now. business owners are paying more to buy those straws, the left doesn't care. the supposed purpose of this campaign was to prevent garbage from ruining america's parks, rivers and wild...