Justice
Plastic Straw Bans Are the New Plastic Bag Bans
Environmentalists have kicked off a campaign called "Straw Wars" to rid London's Soho district of drinking straws.
Is there any better symbol of fast-food culture's extravagance than the disposable straw?
Unlike plastic bags or utensils, which harm the environment while actually serving a useful purpose, drinking straws have no reason to exist other than to provide a crumb of luxury to a paying customer.* Nobody will suffer unduly if these plastic tubes are removed from their mouths; in fact, that would only streamline the traditional drinking method of lips-meet-liquid. Not to mention that they don't make drinking much easier. When used to suck soda, they add an undesirable amount of fizziness to the brew; try to stir coffee with them, and you might as well be using toothpicks.