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Banning plastic straws may not directly reduce the plastic waste problem itself, but it HAS had a very high profile with almost all major media outlets talking about it.

Anything that keeps reminding people that we are destroying our home with use-once plastic is a good thing in my opinion. Today it's plastic straws and shopping bags, tomorrow hopefully it will be larger use-once plastic items and from there we may actually start making an impact.



> all major media outlets talking about it.

The issue is that, when it's (easily) demonstrated it's an exaggeration, the credibility of all major media outlets gets questioned, and rightly so.


Anything that keeps reminding people that we are destroying our home with use-once plastic is a good thing in my opinion.

That's just another form of "ends justify means". One very odd, but it is.


Except that 50% of it is fishing nets, so this slow attrition won’t make an impact, even assuming people aren’t just fatigued after the straw issue.




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