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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.
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.