Researchers found low concentrations of so-called forever chemicals in various “eco-friendly” straws, raising doubts about whether they’re an appropriate alternative.

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    1 year ago

    Disposable products are gonna have problems to keep them cheap. The solution to straws is non-dispossble straws, always was.

    Also this is still a silly topic, straws won’t save the planet.

  • bentropy@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Once in a restaurant I got some longe macaroni pasta as a straw and I still think this was genius.

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    1 year ago

    If I’m not mistaken, manufacturing facilities spray PFAS agents on various conveyor parts to prevent pulp from sticking to them and therefore require stoppage and cleaning. In other words, PFAS reduce the time and money spent on cleaning manufacturing equipment. Congratulations shareholders!

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    1 year ago

    Just use straw

    Or iron

    Or no straws.

    Who tf uses straws anyway

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        1 year ago

        kinda neat

        Climate debate over folks. “Kinda neat” trumps destroying the environment every day of the week. If they were just “sorta neat” or “not really neat” we could ban them, but putting a few hundre metric tons of plastics into the waste stream is a reasonable tradeoff when you’re at the level of “kinda neat”.

        I kid, of course…kinda.