Questions: Food & Beverage

Your preference.
Texture, flavor and diversity.

personally I'm all for cleaning up the environment , if I see a plastic water bottle in a park or along the road I'll pick it up and put it in the recycling

but lately this whole plastic straw ban especially at restaurants has me annoyed , I realise we need to reduce plastic usage but is me using a straw to drink my pop out of a cup hurting the environment? if the restaurant safely disposes on them in there garbage. I have a hard time believe any trash from our local restaurants are making it into the ocean as its 1000's of miles away. and our dump is located down a back road in a wooded area no where near the water.

a lot of the time when I try and drink straw less I spill half the contents on my shirt and its much less enjoyable to drink that way than without a straw.

and for sanitary reasons I prefer a straw than having my mouth touch a cup that's been used by hundreds of people

I'm all for cleaning up the local environment but not seeing the point in banning plastic straws from being used in restaurants no where near the ocean