• @MorgoFett
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    121 year ago

    No straws ever. Got it.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    61 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Scientists in Belgium recently tested dozens of straws from supermarkets, retail stores and fast-food restaurants in the country, and found that the majority contained PFAS — a family of synthetic chemicals used in the manufacture of consumer products because they can resist stains, grease and water.

    Thimo Groffen, an author of the new study and environmental scientist at the University of Antwerp, said it’s not clear whether the manufacturers of the straws he analyzed are intentionally adding PFAS as a waterproof coating.

    Graham Peaslee, who studies PFAS at the University of Notre Dame and was not involved in the new research, said it’s possible manufacturers aren’t testing for the chemicals in their own products.

    Keith Vorst, director of the Polymer and Food Protection Consortium at Iowa State University, said some of the straws in the study exceeded the proposed EPA concentrations for water.

    Various states, including California, Colorado, New York and Oregon, have banned plastic straws from food establishments in the last five years, and chains like Starbucks have phased them out.

    The main reason is that the straws generally can’t be recycled, so they wind up in landfills, get burned in incinerators or become litter that contaminates oceans, rivers, lakes and streams.


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    • @jimmycrackcrack
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      81 year ago

      But they’re still so bad at resisting water. I get cancer AND shitty straws? WTF? Just don’t bother with the PFAS it doesn’t even work.

  • @Coreidan
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    21 year ago

    Ya gotta get those toxic chemicals out there so people get cancer. Gotta pump those healthcare profits.

  • @Ensign_Crab
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    11 year ago

    Just use the coffee lids for everything.