Aussie Enviro
An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.
Topics may include Aussie plants and animals, environmental, farming, energy, and climate news and stories (mostly Aus specific), etc. New related communities will be split off when required, think like subcommunities that exist on that other platform.
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The problem is fast food/restaurants/quick stops.
I've never even thought of using a straw at home. But fast food/quick stops use disposable cups that aren't structuraly sound without a lid, so you need straws.
Restaurants give straws to everyone and then throw them away regardless of if they're used, even tho their reusable glasses don't need them. So people are just using them out of habit. I've heard "the glasses aren't clean enough" which is ridiculous when you're eating off plates with silverware that are washed exactly like the cups
huh?
Because food/restaurants/quick stops currently give out straw we can't make them stop giving out straws? That makes no sense lol.
I mean one main use is drinks with ice so you don't get iced.