Turns out @reason found out in January that this figure came from a 9-year-oldhttps://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau …
-
-
এই থ্রেডটি দেখান
-
h/t to
@AdamMinter, who also noted plastic straws account for .03% of ocean plastic trash, compared to fishnets and fishing equipment which constitutes 46% https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-07/plastic-straws-aren-t-the-problem?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=view … based on estimates by scientists, not 9-year-olds!এই থ্রেডটি দেখান
কথা-বার্তা শেষ
নতুন কথা-বার্তা -
-
-
Straws are still wasteful though.
-
Thank you! I am surprised by the pro-straw hot take.
-
that's because disposable plastic straws are a huge issue to many disabled people relying on them to drink (and, YES, disposable plastic straws are the most accessible ones like it or not), hence a huge accessibility loss already happening.
-
That is a very good point I should have considered.
-
few of my conversations on this matter go that peacefully, thank you !
-
Could our straws be reusable? Why or why not?
-
then again, "your" straws could if you don't have a disability requiring them. If reusable options become more common, that's great ! The problem would be entirely suppressing disposable plastic ones, since some need them.
- 4টি আরও উত্তর
নতুন কথা-বার্তা -
-
-
This is entirely possible because funding for environmental research is laughably low. If you don't fund academic research, this is what you get. Good policy requires good data. Source: my experience funding research via
@SEALAwards -https://sealawards.com/research-grants-2018/ … -
To elaborate - people pursuing PhDs in environmental disciplines spent a ton of time begging for $500 to figure out and provide REAL data for topics like this. Really high impact, logical work goes unfunded.
@BeInstrumentl (largest research grant platform) can verify. -
We should know how many straws the US uses. On
#PrimeDay
, we should know true environmental cost/benefits of e-commerce. These are examples of very logical topics that require unbiased, time-intensive research. Otherwise we are left with the work of 9 year olds. -
People should know how to not be litterbugs and throw their trash everywhere. They are blaming the plastic straws instead of blaming the people who throw their trash on streets and leave trash on the beaches
কথা-বার্তা শেষ
নতুন কথা-বার্তা -
-
-
Nobody blushed at the notion of every American using two straws per day
-
I use about 450,000 straws a day, which kind of skews the figure. I just don't like the idea of taking a sip from the same straw twice. It might have germs on it.
-
Gotta respect a strong straw game
কথা-বার্তা শেষ
নতুন কথা-বার্তা -
-
-
500 million a day lol how did no one stop and think about that for a second.
-
A more realistic figure quoted in the Reason piece is 175 million straws a day. So, the kid wasn't actually that far off.http://bit.ly/2NmxN3t
-
+/- 3x is a pretty ok margin of error I guess
-
For a kid extrapolating from a three-call survey, it's amazing.
-
I guess I just have higher standards from my reporting than data that would be impressively close for a child
-
I'm glad Reason found a more rigorous source, but the more precise figure doesn't change the take home message. It's not as if 500 million is a problem and 175 million is no big deal.
-
No, but that being .03% of the plastic waste is an example of just how ludicrous this campaign is for actually fixing climate change and pollution.
-
I felt the same on the campaign against plastic bags. It had minimal benefit against pollution, close to zero benefit against climate change, and yet consumed a lot of organizational capital. We should focus those efforts on things that have more impact, even if they are harder.
কথা-বার্তা শেষ
নতুন কথা-বার্তা -
লোড হতে বেশ কিছুক্ষণ সময় নিচ্ছে।
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।