In Defense of Plastic Straw Bans
In the age of mass consumption, it seems as though plastic is inescapable. Looking around me, almost half of the random objects scattered on my desk are made of plastic: my calculator, a tape dispenser, a dried up glue stick, a used Amazon gift card, my hoard of pens, an old California Pizza Kitchen cup, my squishy cat stress toy… the list goes on and on. Despite the fact that we have had the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” ingrained in our brains since kindergarten, there is a good chance that many of my desktop items will never experience the simplicity of this phrase; much to our shock and…
