Comment on Just doing my part 🤡

FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Weslee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plastic recycling is a lie.

  I use a reusable metal straw

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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you living on a dumpster or really that naive, that you think your waste is staying where you leave it?

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  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, all I can reasonably do is put it in the correct bin for proper recycling, as they tell you to do. I would never litter; it’s antisocial as fuck.

    Once it’s collected, I have zero control over it. I assume Dutch garbage companies don’t dump my trash in the ocean, but I honestly haven’t bothered to check if they export it to somewhere else or anything like that.

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• SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know you could just learn to drink like grown ups so you don’t need to carry around special implements? My babies could pretty much drink straight from a cup or a glass before they had turned two, you can do it too

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  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And that’s perfectly fine to do with a soda, sure. But with a milkshake? Or a very cold slushie? You can’t really drink those like a soda. Not unless you let them melt completely, which rather defeats the purpose…

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    • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All the other pre-teens out there are protesting that we only have one planet and all you have to complain about is that you have to carry disposable straws for your milkshake or your very cold slushie, or you won’t be able to enjoy them? Those are going to hurt your teeth and your tum-tum anyway, you should probably stop

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• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Instead of paper we should have gone stainless steel. Safe, strong, reusable, fully recyclable.

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  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use metal straws as well. It’s a decent option.

    As for safe, wellllll… there’s some debate on it. People have been impaled when they tripped and fell while drinking from them. They’re also a bit more difficult to clean, since you just toss a plastic straw.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First World problems, amirite? Gotta carry your own metal straw everywhere if you don’t like mushy PFAS.

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Downside is, your plastic trash probably isn’t staying near where you live.

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  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, all I can reasonably do is put it in the correct bin for proper recycling, as they tell you to do. I would never litter; it’s antisocial as fuck.

    Once it’s collected, I have zero control over it. I assume Dutch garbage companies don’t dump my trash in the ocean, but I honestly haven’t bothered to check if they export it to somewhere else or anything like that.

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just be a grown up like me and always have a handy Red Vine ^tm^ to use as a straw.

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  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t sell those here, unfortunately :D

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• Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paper straws work fine?

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  • Binzy_Boi@supermeter.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not to be the "well akshually" guy, but I personally find that paper straws are fine for most drinks, when it comes to thicker ones they really suck (no pun intended). Like, using a paper straw with a slurpee or milkshake is a nightmare.

    I'm team paper straws, but surely there's a better solution for drinks like those.

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should offer reusable metal straws

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’d just get stolen and you know it.

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    • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Idk, would it be any different than reusable metal silverware? Restaurants use those all the time. ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

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