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Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, a person who violates any provision of the code to be guilty of a misdemeanor with each offense punishable by a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 6 months, or by both.
This bill would prohibit a food facility, as specified, where food may be consumed on the premises from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the consumer. By creating a new crime and imposing additional enforcement duties on local health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884
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California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Maddog on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:36PM (5 children)
Our local zoo has paper straws and cups (to protect the animals). I get the reasoning, but they suck (pun intended). Once the liquid gets past the wax barrier the straws break down and collapse.
It is basically a built-in expiration timer for your drink.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @11:50PM
I wonder if that's how inkjet cartridges work.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:07AM (3 children)
If the paper straws don't work, then someone's doing something wrong. All the time I was growing up paper straws were the only straws we used, and there weren't that many problems with them.
OTOH, they do have different use characteristics. My wife used to use both kinds to make musical instruments (poor ones, for demonstration of principles only). She used the paper straws to make double reed instruments and plastic straws to make double reed ones (with part of the straw acting as the reed). She swore that for either purpose only one kind of straw would work. When the Sweetheart paper straw company closed out making paper straws, she bought up all their remaining inventory. (Well, that was excessive, and now I've got many boxes of paper straws to deal with. But she was afraid of running out.)
So one of the possibilities is that the new paper straws are made by some company that either doesn't know or doesn't care how to make a proper paper straw. The other is that you need to learn how to use one. Since I no longer drink things that come with a straw, I can't offer an informed estimate. (I don't use a straw with either water or coffee, and I take my coffee black, so I can't even comment on common coffee stirring sticks.)
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:11AM
Aaaargh! Correction: She used plastic straws to make single reed instruments, and paper straws to make double reed instruments.
She used to demonstrate the purpose of finger holes by making an instrument out of a whole straw, and then cutting it off at the appropriate places to produce a scale going up...and then talk about the difficulty in then going down the scale.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday January 28 2018, @09:14PM (1 child)
That's a lot of contraband you're sitting on, mate - would be a shame if the authorities found out, if you know what I mean. 50 notes in a brown paper envelope behind the cistern on the leftmost stall of the loos beside platform 9 of St. Pancras station before tomorrow night. Or else.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday January 29 2018, @06:15AM
???
I assume your comment made some sense to you, if only as a joke, but it doesn't make any sense to me.
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