CFACT unveiled a new billboard that lays out more hard facts that expose the foolishness of banning plastic straws.
Only 0.03% of plastic in the ocean comes from straws and 98.6% of ocean plastic does not come from the U.S.!
Put that together with the fact that 80% of mismanaged plastic waste in the ocean comes from ten rivers in Asia and Africa, as made clear by the first billboard in CFACT’s campaign, and the conclusion is clear — Banning straws in America is a complete waste. QED.
Plastic straw bans have been put in place in Miami Beach, Malibu, and Seattle. New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Oregon and others are poised to follow suit.
Private companies are succumbing to the pressure and getting on board.
Starbucks famously announced that it would replace straws with a new plastic lid that it turns out actually uses more plastic than the straws it is designed to replace!
Plastic in the ocean is a problem. The good news? The problem isn’t you.
It turns out that banning straws in America will accomplish nothing
meaningful. As CFACT’s Marc Morano puts it, “straw bans are the ultimate virtue-signaling movement.”
Here are a few straight facts:
- The oft-cited figure that Americans use 500 million straws a day comes from the unvetted guess of a nine-year-old for a school project;
- Over 80% of unmanaged ocean plastic comes from just 10 rivers in Africa and Asia;
- Forty-six percent of total ocean plastic is discarded fishing gear;
- America contributes less than 1.4% of ocean plastic;
- Just 0.03% of ocean plastic comes from straws;
- American straws contribute an insignificant amount to ocean plastic;
- Banning American straws is a waste.
Why ban straws in America if it accomplishes nothing?
Because the Green-Left can’t control the developing world’s pollution, but they can control you — and that’s all they really care about.
Solutions?
- Leave consumers free to choose how they drink;
- Help the developing world learn to handle its massive problem of plastic and other waste using the proven techniques that keep the advanced world clean.
Banning straws is about power, control, and naive thinking.
That’s no way to make public policy.
Read more at CFACT
Please review our funny video making fun of the straw ban.
http://www.strawskill.com
Nice work of satire. Just remembered that I was told a person could get drunk of a bottle of beer if you used a straw. They also break camel’s backs. Dangerous things.
Cheers
Just imagine going to jail for half a year Six Months for handing out straws just more proof that modern enviromentalisms a form of stupidity in SANTA BARBRA the Eco-Stupidity runs wild just like phasing out the Internal Combustion Engine or devesting in Fossil Fuels these anti fracking anti drilling nit-wits need dose of reality
“Naive thinking” is the foundation of the environmental movement.
Windmills and solar panels will replace fossil fuels? Just more of the same.
Wind Turbines and Solar Panels No Good for the Birds and Bats and make a terrible noise Those who oppose Fracking and Drilling at total idiots
I’m sure the comments here are correct and much of the motivation behind banning straws is the desire to control people. For some people this makes them seem more important to themselves. The facts on straws don’t matter because that isn’t the motivation. The same is almost certainly true of anthropological climate change.
As far as the non-activists who support the straw ban it is unlikely that they know the facts in this article.
Not only don’t they know the facts, they don’t even care. As with all green/socialist policies, it is all about exercising power over others.
Banning straws is just another example of Eco-Stupidity just like urging us to all go vegan its based all upon Junk Science and Politics these idiots from PETA want all of us to go vegan because PETA was founded by a crazy ding-bat