re: Explain this thinking: NO plastic straws but serves food with plastic utinsils.

It’s all due to the turtle photo op. North America accounts for 4.5% of ocean plastic and most of that isn’t from the USA. From the USA a lot of that stems from places like California that drain stormwater straight into the ocean. Anyone actually wanting to help the issue would focus on Asia where they have no problem dumping their trash, some of it sold to them by countries like the USA, straight into the ocean.

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