Really 500 million straws a day? And if your waiter offers a straw he is fined $1,000!

[healthmyths]

California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

The actual number of straws being used is unclear. Calderon, along with news outlets writing about this issue—from CNN to the San Francisco Chronicle—unfailingly state that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day, many of them ending up in waterways and oceans. The 500 million figure is often attributed to the National Park Service; it in turn got it from the recycling company Eco-Cycle.

Eco-Cycle is unable to provide any data to back up this number, telling Reason that it was relying on the research of one Milo Cress. Cress—whose Be Straw Free Campaign is hosted on Eco-Cycle's website—tells Reason that he arrived at the 500 million straws a day figure from phone surveys he conducted of straw manufacturers in 2011, when he was just 9 years old.
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

Consider this have you used two straws today? Today, and everyday you've been alive.
500,000,000 divided by 230,000,000 Americans is 2 straws per day. Everyday.
Oh and by the way this fine of $1,000 is based on a phone survey by a 9 year old.

 

[healthmyths]

What is the lesson learned here?
Be skeptical of statistics and have some common sense! Here there is legislation that is based on a a phone survey by a 9 year old kid!
Really intelligent!
Didn't any of the people putting this together just look at the reality of the numbers?
2 straws per per person per day! Everyday!

 

[depotoo]

And policy is introduced/made from a 9 yr olds ‘survey’ from 7 yrs ago. Just another example of why Ca has the problems and reputation they have.

 

[healthmyths]

Here is another really dumb assumption made by people who don't seem to have any common sense!

 

[BluesLegend]

I want to stand on the Nevada/California border and throw a box of straws into California and watch them freak out, youtube gold.

 

[depotoo]

I want to stand on the Nevada/California border and throw a box of straws into California and watch them freak out, youtube gold.

And let them be in a box, but not plastic made, just paper. Watch them freak over nothing! Lol

 

[ColonelAngus]

if California wants to stop straws from ending up in the ocean, why not stop restaurants from buying them instead of fining waiters for handing them out?

 

[BluesLegend]

if California wants to stop straws from ending up in the ocean, why not stop restaurants from buying them instead of fining waiters for handing them out?

Hell just force people to cup their hands together and drink that way, no cup no straw, call it paleo climate friendly.

 

[ABikerSailor]

If you had read the link, first thing you would notice is that this is a blog site.

Second thing you would have noticed, if you had read all the way to the bottom is that it has been amended to drop the fines.

From the link.......................

Update: Reason spoke with Voleck Taing, a senior assistant to Assemblyman Calderon, who said they intend to amend the bill to remove the fines.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Just to put this in persepctive, the STATE OF CALIFORNIA would like for waiters to be fined $1000 and possibly spend 6 months in PRISON for handing an unrequested drinking straw to a diner.........BUT CALIFONRIA WANTS ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS TO GET FREE HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE and CITIZENSHIP........even though they committed a felony.

Summary:

Hand a straw to a restaurant patron....punishment is $1000 fine and 6 months in prison.

Committ a FELONY by immigrating illegally...get thousands of dollars of free shit!


California is FUCKING INSANE.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Just to put this in persepctive, the STATE OF CALIFORNIA would like for waiters to be fined $1000 and possibly spend 6 months in PRISON for handing an unrequested drinking straw to a diner.........BUT CALIFONRIA WANTS ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS TO GET FREE HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE and CITIZENSHIP........even though they committed a felony.

Summary:

Hand a straw to a restaurant patron....punishment is $1000 fine and 6 months in prison.

Committ a FELONY by immigrating illegally...get thousands of dollars of free shit!


California is FUCKING INSANE.

If you had bothered to read the whole link from the OP, you would have seen that the bill was amended to drop the fines.

You're going bananas for nothing.

 

[Rustic]

If you had read the link, first thing you would notice is that this is a blog site.

Second thing you would have noticed, if you had read all the way to the bottom is that it has been amended to drop the fines.

From the link.......................

Update: Reason spoke with Voleck Taing, a senior assistant to Assemblyman Calderon, who said they intend to amend the bill to remove the fines.

All progressives are asswipes...

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

2 straws per per person per day! Everyday!

Oh yes, easily that much. Every refill...new straw. And the waste.... I ordered stock for a restaurant, and it was almost baffling. We went through easily 10 times as many straws as people we served.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from sippy straws

California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

 

[Clementine]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

So, radicals would be going to restaurants all day in hopes of tricking some poor minimum wage worker into handing them a straw. Yea, send those people to jail and impose a fine they'll never be able to afford. That is the liberal way of dealing with people.

Only in California will you get a stiffer penalty for handing out straws than for shooting and killing an innocent woman.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

You can rape and kill and go free but serve up a plastic straw and you're going to prison. Please secede.

 

[Issa]

Meanwhile in the Mecca of conservatives Texas:
Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos. LOL

 

[healthmyths]

2 straws per per person per day! Everyday!

Oh yes, easily that much. Every refill...new straw. And the waste.... I ordered stock for a restaurant, and it was almost baffling. We went through easily 10 times as many straws as people we served.

Anecdotal story! You are making your experience the rule and not the exception.
A) babies can't use straws.
B) some old people can't use straws.
C) Not all restaurants provide straws.

500,000,000 x 365.25 days in a year is 182,625,000,000 billion a year.

Va Plant Produces 4B Drinking Straws Annually
The above article states this company produces 4 billion straws a year.

The below link counts 15 companies in the USA that make straws.
15 companies times 4 billion per company is 60 billion straws.
https://www.manta.com/mb_35_E829002W_000/straws_drinking_made_from_purchased_material
The 60 billion straws PRODUCED is only 32% of the purported 182.6 Billion straws used!

It doesn't make sense!

The number is not accurate when it was based on a survey done by a 9 year old kid!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

2 straws per per person per day! Everyday!

Oh yes, easily that much. Every refill...new straw. And the waste.... I ordered stock for a restaurant, and it was almost baffling. We went through easily 10 times as many straws as people we served.

Anecdotal story! You are making your experience the rule and not the exception.
A) babies can't use straws.
B) some old people can't use straws.
C) Not all restaurants provide straws.

500,000,000 x 365.25 days in a year is 182,625,000,000 billion a year.

Va Plant Produces 4B Drinking Straws Annually
The above article states this company produces 4 billion straws a year.

The below link counts 15 companies in the USA that make straws.
15 companies times 4 billion per company is 60 billion straws.
https://www.manta.com/mb_35_E829002W_000/straws_drinking_made_from_purchased_material
The 60 billion straws PRODUCED is only 32% of the purported 182.6 Billion straws used!

It doesn't make sense!

The number is not accurate when it was based on a survey done by a 9 year old kid!

You are not approaching it correctly. it is claimed that Americans consume 500 million straws per day. It's not hard at all to believe. In fact, it might be low.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Meanwhile in the Mecca of conservatives Texas:
Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos. LOL

Federal appeals overturned that statue over a decade ago and rightfully so. You're still good with CA sending people to prison for serving plastic straws?