The United Kingdom will implement a ban on plastic straws as soon as next year, becoming the first country to impose such a measure.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announced the move Wednesday as part of a previously announced plan to ban all plastic waste by 2042, BuzzFeed News reported. The ban would also include stirrers and cotton swabs.
She also said that she plans to push Commonwealth nations, the 53 countries largely made up of former British colonies, to take up similar bans.
Video related is the reason plastic straws are getting banned. Grow up.
Jayden Reed
Have to agree with his user.
Ryan Martin
Yeah,, this is a good thing for many reasons. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Dominic Miller
I came to this thread to make a weapons ban joke but in reality nothing of value was lost.
Plastic straws suck.
Tyler Butler
Aaatttt… least have our culture…..
Cooper Parker
I take it you don't live near the coast. Take a trip to a beach and look at the shit floating in the water and being eaten by the wildlife. All small, 1-use pieces of plastic marketed to make the lives of teenagers and women easier need to be addressed. There are biodegradable alternatives made from seaweed or compressed organic fiber.
Ian Robinson
Poor turle probably was possibly eaten by a shark with that bloody nose.
Jose Bell
Have they banned plastic knives?
Andrew Johnson
We're taxing your tea We're taxing your sugar We're Frenching your passports We're taxing your carrier bags We're banning your straws We're taking your cotton swabs We're taking your forks and spoons We're taxing your cans and bottles We're banning your combustion engines We're banning your steak dinners We're mandating the introduction of flouride and soy sauce in all future produce
Saxon culture is destroyed No more Saxons. No more Romans. No more.
I'm beginning to think overexposure to BPA could be bad for your emotional health.
Ian Green
Were there any straws in 1984? Check and mate.
Wyatt Hall
Ok what do they use for the hospital patients?
Jordan Clark
So called environmentalists put it there in the first place. Fake shit, "oh it's a worm!!!!!!!!" - using a penknife to do it, then the big reveal and some leftist faggots with crocodile tears and a message to the media. Recycle the straws, it isn't difficult.
Joseph Baker
Kill every last juden, negroid, arab, pajeet, chingchong - all world problems solved.
Easton Thomas
perma b& from Zig Forums already I don't mind it although inform me again, how is it you are not a rulecuck?
Charles Hughes
Actually it is. Not only do these small plastic items need to be easily sortable (they aren't) most plastics aren't truely recyclable. Melting, and exposure to oxygen and sunlight degrade the plastics so that they cannot be reused for the same purpose. Most plastic objects aren't even a single type of plastic, so recycling causes those plastics to mix into an all but useless blend that can only be used for the cheapest objects. Plastics aren't glass they can't be endlessly recycled.
Anthony Young
What the fuck are they going to make straws from now?
You know what. Anyone who wants a clean fucking straw. Good look using swabs made of twigs you technology fearing luddite You know those little plastic forks that you get with your fish and chips? It's fucking happening m8 They will tax "unhealthy fat riddled protein" just like they do sugar. I'm fucking calling it. It's artificially flouridated, nationwide I believe. I don't believe it's a conspiracy to weaken the population. I just believe it's uncalled for benevolence. Unless you called for any of this shit. Did you?
The root cause is always money aka theft. The UK is a country that is fine with theft, condones it even.
It was supposed to go to environmental charities. Instead it goes directly to the "charity foundations" that are the direct arms of those corporations. They get essentially extra money AND tax deductions.
Kinder on teeth though.
They taste like dirt.
William Cook
What the fuck are you talking about, they're going to be straws made of paper, like Mcdonald's cups. Is this what you really believe Wooden chip forks have been a thing for longer than my dad could remember that's for sure It's naturally flouridated.
Easton Ortiz
i'm gonna kms now
Mason Gray
He's making fun of your shitty nanny state banning everything, calm down faggot.
Aiden Garcia
My swabs have hard paper sticks. Checkmate plasticists.
You're right in that Zig Forums is cancer, but your reasoning as to why that might be is wrong, and in fact, that sort of idiocy is partly what makes this place a shithole.
Evan Thomas
Mcdonalds cups are made of laminated paper which is unrecycleable and worse for the environment. I haven't used any paper straws that resemble that material. The only paper straws I've used were more coarse, too easy to bend, and make drinks taste like shit. I believe that plastic is used because it's a suitable material. Need I remind you that the ends of paper straws get dented easily? I could talk more about the disadvantages but essentially what you're doing is letting the government tell you that you can't have it. Again, they're shit They put extra in there because fuck you. This is not some well hidden secret. It's commonly done.
Owen Bell
take your meds
Jackson Phillips
Oi m8, where's your bloody straw license bruv?
Jason Thomas
So what are the U.K. Gonna use for straws instead? Are they even gonna have any?
Colton Butler
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Carson Foster
They could always drink normally out of a cup, but that would be too hard for the average faggots.
Owen Myers
Can't spell cuck without UK.
Angel Nelson
THIS IS THE LAST STRAW!!!!!!!!!
GOLDWATER
Liam Cox
bake your breads
Tyler Walker
Drinking straws only only good for two things: shooting spitballs & snorting meth
Swizzle sticks are some bullshit
Q-Tips are dangerous to put in your ears
fuck all of those things… The only useful thing made out of plastic are the zip-tie handcuffs they'll use on Jim while he's being extradited to America to face federal H.B. 1865 FOSTA Bill charges after he's arrested in The Philippines for the child pornography…
and even then, a simple 4¢ bullet to the temple would be more effective.
And hey, would you look at that! None of those countries are majority white first world countries! It's almost like ocean garbage is a result of poor care for the environment which is a cultural problem not present in the kinds of countries that would ban plastic and which already enforce their environmental laws!
And here's yet another more damning source too: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html "Up to 95 per cent of plastic polluting the world's oceans pours in from just ten rivers, according to new research. The top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia - accounted for so much plastic because of the mismanagement of waste. About five trillion pounds is floating in the sea, and targeting the major sources - such as the Yangtze and the Ganges - could almost halve it, scientists claim."
So again, it's shown that we would literally solve the issue of garbage in oceans if we could get thirdworlder lemmings to care about the environment and enforce environmental laws. It's not a first world problem. Developed countries have the god given right to create all manner of polluting bullshit because we actually clean it up and sue each other with a strong set of laws
Developed nations just export their trash to poorer nations where it gets dumped on coasts because they are too cheap to transport it further inland there it rolls off the giant heaps into the sea.
All disposable plastic items should be banned, yes they are cheap but they dont rot away properly. Only exemptions should be biodegradable plastics. The methane from those can be collected from land fills and used to generate electricity and heat.
Andrew Stewart
You're fucking stupid, but what's worse is that you actually think you know what the fuck you're talking about. Hell, France banned BPA in anything that comes into contact with food because there's a wealth of information about how it can fuck you up. What's unfortunate though is that a lot of places are just replacing BPA with chemically similar replacements that probably have the same effect, but there's no laws or research on them yet so here we go again.
