Comment on Just doing my part 🤡

• Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is a learning curve with metal straws, if you only used plastic / paper. I hit my teeth so often with the metal one when I first got it.

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  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ours have little silicone bits on the end to use as a mouthpiece to prevent that. We also have some silicone straws which work fine.

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Silicone is a type of plastic (kind of)

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      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, silicone is in a weird spot where it’s kinda a plastic and kinda rubber.

        But that’s less important because they aren’t single use. You’re going to use them time and again.

        Same reason I never felt bad about buying the “single use” plastic grocery bags from Aldi that they’ve discontinued - I still have ones from my first visit to an Aldi that I continue to reuse.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like Germ City to me tbh. Straws are bad enough already without nooks and crannies

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      • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Idk about theirs, but my silicone bits are removable. You take them off before you wash them.

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