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[...] "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: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday July 04 2018, @06:38PM
I don't know where the estimate came from, or whether it's accurate, but your objection that it's unreasonable is wrong. All of those square boxy juice containers come with an attached straw. Many kids drink several per day. I've seen coffee shops that supply a variety of straw to stir the cream into the coffee, etc., etc. You probably have too limited a concept of what a "straw" is.
That said, this doesn't mean the figure is correct, just that it's not obviously wrong.
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