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SYSK Choice: How to Avoid Eating Plastic & Overcoming Cognitive Bias

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Plastic Straws - Are They Really Harmful?

I don't know that i ever understood exactly what the harm was, specifically about plastic straws, as opposed to plastic anything else. I think they are inherently more harmful than any other form of single use plastic, whether that'sa a plastic bag or a plastic cup. But unlike some of those other items, you do have kind of a reala legitimate use for them by people in the di community who say at they kind of need them to be able to drink easily. So i think that with plastic straws and with some other single used products, perhaps there's a way to figure out where we can get better forms of paper straws.

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