Kramer and Newman should've tried the Phoenix-to-LA route

God forbid you folks can't have your plastic straws! Environment be damned, I want my plastic straws and my crappy light bulbs, too!

Home - The Last Plastic Straw

500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the United States alone. That’s 175 Billion a year filtering into landfills (environment) and littering our waterways and oceans.

 

The lawyer I’m sleeping with assures me I’m good. Then she told me to go take out the garbage.

 

It used to be that I could go to a self-service machine, feed it my bottles and cans and get a voucher I could redeem inside the nearby supermarket. Now I must go to a kiosk, separate my recyclables and wait for a clerk to collect some personal information and write me a voucher. It's just not worth it any more.

 

Perhaps I missed it but I see nothing in that article about towns and municipalities that pick up your recyclables... when they didn't previously.

 

I agree with this....

...but not this. Dr Pepper (no period) is so much better than Pibb.

Around here, I don't know about other places, but they have "Pibb Xtra" now. The label has "cinnamon cherry soda" on the label in small print. I don't taste the cinnamon, though. If you go to a store that has a fountain, the label will read "Mr Pibb" sometimes and "Pibb Xtra" others and I'm not 100-percent certain if the two are the same or different.

The proper pecking order is
Real sugar Dr Pepper>Dr Pepper>Mr Pibb>The Fizzicist (Kroger's cane sugar knockoff, which I argue should be called "The Fizzician")>Dr. Thunder (Walmart)>Pibb Xtra

 

I denounce this.
I fucking denounce it.

 

The "500 million straws" thing has been proven, if not outright false, then murky as a mud puddle at best. It was made up by a 9-year-old for a class project, somehow picked up by environmental groups, and then repeated by major media outlets that never fact-checked it.

That anti-straw movement? It's all based on one 9-year-old's suspect statistic

 

Good Tebow, it's just like Trump's tale about Canadians crossing the border on scuffed sneakers.[/crossthread] [/bluefont]

 

Mr. Pibb. He's not one of those "Doctor" sodas, putting on airs and flashing around his Ivy League diploma. Mr. Pibb earns his paycheck.

 

OK cool. Let's go with 100M...Are you OK with 100M plastic straws degrading for decades in the environment, just because you don't want to use a paper one?

 

Honestly, I'm not sure I've ever even seen a paper straw but I've heard they kinda suck (no pun intended). The reusable metal ones might have their own issues in terms of cleanliness. So, yes, plastic is the way to go.

 

Dude didn’t even get his degree.