Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Paper Straws are Terrible for the Environment | Let Lee Explain" video.

  1. Nope, do your research better Vice, and stop sensationalizing things. Paper straws are still better than plastic ones. Anything that is ever manufactured will of course have an impact by using raw materials, that is no reason to put that there as something evil - it's just part of the process. Plus, encouraging people to go with yet another thing - like steel straws - completely ignores the fact that those also have very bad processing costs, and could potentially have the same negative consequences if people buy them, and don't use them, or replace them all the time. You should use tote bags or just plastic bags as much as you can, but one major problem of the flimsy market grade plastic bags is that they quickly turn into microplastics once they go into the ocean or landfills, which ends up in the food chain meaning you'll eventually be eating that. Tote bags take more water and resources to be made, but on average people already use it for longer and more, and they can also be recycled for all sorts of other things, so it is an overall net positive. No need to confuse people even more with specifics. Aluminum can recycling do not happen in the same way throughout the entire world. There are lots and lots of processing plants that will take even crushed cans and melt them in the same way non crushed cans are for recycling. The plants that aren't should rethinking their sorting process, it's more effective than making people think that if they crush cans it won't be recycled somehow. As for wipes, try the japanese route. Not everyone will get used to it, but believe me when I say most people will love it and will never look back to TP or baby wipes. What I mean by this is "intimate" showers, bidets, or those fancy Toto toilet seats. If you cannot get used to that, at the very very least - stop flushing TP and baby wipes. Or anything else that is not shit and piss for that matter. Everything that is not shit and piss... well, and other bodily fluids, should be going into a trashcan. There you go.
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