• chepox@sopuli.xyz
    302·
    5 个月前

    I just hate how fast we reacted to that damn turtle with a plastic straw in its nose and now we will forever suck on moist paper straws for the rest of our lives if we are lucky. But we do shit about the real bulk of the plastic in our oceans. Oh but the cute turtle… We must act now!!!

    The world is doomed by greed brothers. We are fucked.

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
      12·
      5 个月前

      Every time this comes up I have three words to say that seem like a perfect solution and I don’t understand why it isn’t the default: dry pasta straws.

      Compostable, cheap, stronger than paper, even edible if you really want

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
      81·
      5 个月前

      The good news is the soft plastic bags that turtles think are jellyfish are still getting dumped into the ocean en masse. That’s what you get turtles for ruining our iced latte drinking experience /jk

    • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      5 个月前

      I dimly remember my grandmother having straws made from actual straw (or something similar at least). I don’t remember how well they worked unfortunately

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      2·
      5 个月前

      Eh, I had one in a restaurant the other day that actually worked pretty well. It might be a drop in the bucket but it’s better than nothing.