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

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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    can i interrupt your whine to remind you i answered your question
    
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    AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Thank you for interrupting our discussion of zebras where everything is striped black or white, by reminding us they’re striped light gray and dark gray
    
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ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Because my teeth are going bad and straws help

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- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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