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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love my metal straws. Great for smoothies and milkshakes. They don’t collapse!

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Metal straws are annoying to clean. You can’t just put them in the dishwasher, but have to use more water washing by hand and need to buy a specific tool just for that.

  But why are we using straws at all? Just say no

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    some people’s necks don’t bend right. straws are a medical device

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s where you’re going? Out of the billions of straws used every day, you’re concerned about the edge case where it’s medically useful? By all means go for the plastic single use. Medicine is a huge user of that and there’s no realistic alternative. Hospitals and nursing homes get universal exemptions. It’s also a tiny fraction of single use plastic straw waste.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        can i interrupt your whine to remind you i answered your question

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  • ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because my teeth are going bad and straws help

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thats something I wasn’t aware of, but clearly there are medical needs. I’m still confident that’s a small minority.

      You’re right that we need to stop trying to make things binary, like a blanket prohibition. But we should be able to just say no to casual use of single use plastic straws and the remaining exceptions are probably no big deal. It’s not the hundreds of thousands of medically useful single use plastic straws every day that are the problem. But the hundreds of millions of casual use

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• Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wheat stalk straws are surprisingly good. Don’t need to wash them like metal and silicone ones.

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• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Might get expensive to give one away with every drink

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  • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was thinking those proper metal ones, but if we’re talking about some extremely thin aluminium straws then I’d more worry about how well they’d handle and if there’s some other worries about them. Lots of metal trash probably

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but I’m terrible about carrying them with me

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  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Start a cocaine or ketamine habit and you will always remember to have it on hand.

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they have to be 3 feet long novelty straws?

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just don’t trip

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