what's wrong with the prohibition of straw supply in restaurants? Plastic drinks usually have straws, and California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday banning restaurants offering full-service services from offering disposable plastic straws to customers unless they ask for them. The bill will take effect on January 1 next year, and violators will be fined $25 a day after receiving two warnings.
This makes California the first state in the United States to ban restaurants from offering plastic straws to customers. The move comes after some cities banned plastic utensils from restaurants in Seattle. California banned disposable plastic bags in 2014.
However, the California ban does not apply to fast food restaurants or convenience stores. Full service restaurants can still offer paper or metal straws to customers.
The law aims to reduce plastic pollution, which Mr Brown says kills thousands of marine animals every year. He said researchers found 80 plastic bags in the stomach of a dead pilot whale washed ashore in Thailand,
"All forms of plastic - pipettes, bottles, packaging, bags and so on - are killing our planet," said Brown. It's only a small step for customers who want to use plastic straws to make their own demands. This may stop them and consider another option. '
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Plastic straws are being abandoned by global users: too much harm
For some enterprises with great responsibilities, they are busy following up on one thing, that is, following the "plastic restriction" upsurge.
At present, KFC and McDonald's have announced that they will stop providing plastic straws in stores, and will replace paper straws in some stores as soon as 2019.
For Starbucks, they have also announced that all of their coffee chains plan to bid farewell to plastic straws by 2020, with more than one billion plastic straws expected to be reduced each year.
Since this year, China has banned 24 Categories of solid wastes, including waste plastics, from entering the country. The UK plans to promote a new "plastic restriction order" in England to ban the sale of disposable plastic products, such as plastic straw, plastic stir stick and cotton swab with plastic stick. Meanwhile, Germany and the United States are also following the "plastic restriction" trend.
Because the plastic straw is difficult to reuse, and it is a very dangerous object. For example, the service life of a plastic straw is only about 20 minutes, but it takes more than 200 years to degrade into small molecules naturally.
Industry analysts generally believe that promoting ordinary consumers to minimize the use of disposable plastic products such as plastic straw is the best way to deal with it.