Meanwhile they wont ban those white K-cup pods, or the white grainy Styrofoam used for packaging (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=expanded+polystyrene+foam&iax=images&ia=images)
That shit should have been banned years ago.
Ya or some replacement for the excessive use of wrapping everything inside of products in plastic
Will the single-use plastics ban itself have any practical effect? I honestly don’t have any idea how much it will reduce the use of plastic. How big are plastic bags and straws compared to the vast bulk of plastic products that get produced? Are we talking 1%? 5%? Is there any process in place to measure how much less of particular types of plastic are used after it goes into effect? Is there a target for what it’s meant to accomplish? Whatever, I guess they’ve got to start somewhere. It’s just frustrating that I’ve read so many news reports about this and none of them make any effort to quantify it properly.
close [to] 57 million straws are used daily
WTF Canada, that’s a lot straws. How is that even possible?
As it turns out, the 57 millions straws (link is to Reason which as always is unreasonable about it) factoid was apparently a guess made by a nine-year-old several years ago. Other sources have it as close to 16 million, which is more plausible although still more than I would’ve guessed.