Did #plastic #straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think.

source: grist.org/culture/plastic-stra…

Thousands of restaurants joined the pledge and the idea took off, reaching the rare environmental threshold of actual policy change. In 2018, Seattle became the first big city in the United States to ban plastic straws. It was followed shortly by other major municipalities in California, New Jersey, Florida, and other states. That same year, companies including Starbucks and American Airlines jumped on the anti-straw bandwagon, the former announcing it would launch a new “sippy” lid for its cold beverages starting in 2020, allegedly diverting more than 1 billion straws per year.

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Did plastic straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think.

Plastic straw bans were once a major environmental goal. Now advocates know there's more to single-use plastic pollution.

^{Harvin Bhathal (Grist)}