[...] "Plastic pollution is surpassing crisis levels in the world's oceans, and I'm proud Seattle is leading the way and setting an example for the nation by enacting a plastic straw ban," Mami Hara, the general manager of Seattle Public Utilities, told KOMO News.
The National Park Service estimates 500 million straws are used by Americans each day.
The Seattle ban actually began with an ordinance prohibiting one-time-use food service items in 2008, but the city has allowed exemptions on certain items every year since. For example, Styrofoam food packaging was banned in 2009, according to the Seattle Times. But because of the market, plastic utensils and straws have been exempted in Seattle's ban until now, the newspaper reported.
Seattle bans plastic straws, utensils, becoming first major US city to do so
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:43PM (4 children)
When you ignore cost and practicality, then anything becomes reasonable. Why not just hire people to hold food for the diners so that no bowls need to be used at all? There after all is no real benefit to bowls at all other than cost and practicality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:29PM (2 children)
Jesus, why do you always defend the worst parts of corporate behavior?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 05 2018, @04:15AM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 06 2018, @12:23PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @04:44PM
How about you hold my balls? Yeah, that's it.