[raydan]

The outside of the glass is the easiest to clean, so if they're not doing a good job on the outside...


...need I continue?


Eating in a bar or restaurant is a question of trust. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave that "used" straw to the next client in some places.

[DrCaleb]

stratos stratos:

raydan raydan:

stratos stratos:

Ever taken a close look at a glass you are about to drink from at a bar or a restaurant. You might rethink banning straws if you do.

If it's on the glass, it's in the glass... so forget the straws and forget drinking at bars or restaurants.

So that lipstick and greasy finger print smear on the outside of the glass also contaminates the inside of the glass and the liquid?

Any restaurant that would serve you in such a glass isn't one to frequent. Anyone that doesn't replace your drink once you mention it is one to get up and walk out of.

If you are just walking around drinking from other people's unattended glasses though . . .

[herbie]

Where's the meme that says we're not among the top 10 polluters so we're stoopid if we do anything about it?

[N_Fiddledog]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Conservative logic: Canada should legalize murder since we’re only responsible for a fraction of the worlds murders.

Except 'Do nothing' isn't what was said or suggested, is it?

Oh well...let's play the how many times do you have to say something before Beave and his crew hear it game, again.

There are simple solutions available to us that don’t involve heavy-handed bans. First, we could focus more strictly on limiting how plastics end up in our rivers, lakes and streams. Better recycling programs and stricter littering prohibitions could go a long way to curbing the plastic Canada does contribute. For those single-use products that otherwise end up in landfills, we could follow Sweden’s lead, and incinerate that waste. Doing so creates a power source for local communities, while capturing airborne toxins, limiting toxic runoff, and significantly reducing the volume of waste.

Good public policy should address a real problem and should make a meaningful impact on the said problem. Unfortunately, Trudeau’s proposed single-use plastics ban would have little to no impact on overall ocean waste, while promoting high-impact alternatives, and inflating costs for consumers. All three of these factored together create a fairly toxic policy mix.

So, here in Canada, we're dealing with much less pollution than the hysterics on the left are pulling their hair out about. It appears manageable. The alternative is to increase cost of alternatives by four times and increase air pollution producing the alternatives. It isn't just straws. It would have to be take-out containers, cups, lids, those plastic inlays in Justin's water bottles and on and on. "Single-use plastics."

Giving government "management" powers over a ban would have to produce problems we haven't thought of yet.

What some conservatives are actually saying is do an even better job of cleaning than we've been doing and try to pressure the real perpetrators of the much bigger problem - the 99.09 percent of the problem to smarten up.

[BeaverFever]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Conservative logic: Canada should legalize murder since we’re only responsible for a fraction of the worlds murders.

Except 'Do nothing' isn't what was said or suggested, is it?

Oh well...let's play the how many times do you have to say something before Beave and his crew hear it game, again.

There are simple solutions available to us that don’t involve heavy-handed bans. First, we could focus more strictly on limiting how plastics end up in our rivers, lakes and streams. Better recycling programs and stricter littering prohibitions could go a long way to curbing the plastic Canada does contribute. For those single-use products that otherwise end up in landfills, we could follow Sweden’s lead, and incinerate that waste. Doing so creates a power source for local communities, while capturing airborne toxins, limiting toxic runoff, and significantly reducing the volume of waste.

Good public policy should address a real problem and should make a meaningful impact on the said problem. Unfortunately, Trudeau’s proposed single-use plastics ban would have little to no impact on overall ocean waste, while promoting high-impact alternatives, and inflating costs for consumers. All three of these factored together create a fairly toxic policy mix.

So, here in Canada, we're dealing with much less pollution than the hysterics on the left are pulling their hair out about. It appears manageable. The alternative is to increase cost of alternatives by four times and increase air pollution producing the alternatives. It isn't just straws. It would have to be take-out containers, cups, lids, those plastic inlays in Justin's water bottles and on and on. "Single-use plastics."

Giving government "management" powers over a ban would have to produce problems we haven't thought of yet.

What some conservatives are actually saying is do an even better job of cleaning than we've been doing and try to pressure the real perpetrators of the much bigger problem - the 99.09 percent of the problem to smarten up.

As I said trying to fix things from the discharge end only isn’t a solution, it’s an excuse

Here’s a cartoon to explain it to you.