Really 500 million straws a day? And if your waiter offers a straw he is fined $1,000!

[Harpy Eagle]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

 

[LeftofLeft]

What if an illegal hands out a plastic fork? Then again, an illegal shot an innocent woman dead and Cali defendended the illegal.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

Yep, and the headline was that Cali was going to fine waiters. Which is a fake headline since the law has not even been debated yet, let alone passed and signed into law.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

What if an illegal hands out a plastic fork? Then again, an illegal shot an innocent woman dead and Cali defendended the illegal.

CA is a sanctuary state. Illegals have protection. Citizens aren't afforded that luxury.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

Yep, and the headline was that Cali was going to fine waiters. Which is a fake headline since the law has not even been debated yet, let alone passed and signed into law.

Who serves customers in a restaurant? Surely, you can do simple deductive reasoning.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

Yep, and the headline was that Cali was going to fine waiters. Which is a fake headline since the law has not even been debated yet, let alone passed and signed into law.

Who serves customers in a restaurant? Surely, you can do simple deductive reasoning.

Let me break this down really slowly for you.

Since this bill has not even been debated on, let alone voted on or signed into law, NOBODY is getting fined for giving someone a straw.

Maybe eventually the headline will be accurate, but as of today it is fake news.

This is the kind of shit that people bitch and moan about the MSN doing all the time.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

Yep, and the headline was that Cali was going to fine waiters. Which is a fake headline since the law has not even been debated yet, let alone passed and signed into law.

Who serves customers in a restaurant? Surely, you can do simple deductive reasoning.

Let me break this down really slowly for you.

Since this bill has not even been debated on, let alone voted on or signed into law, NOBODY is getting fined for giving someone a straw.

Maybe eventually the headline will be accurate, but as of today it is fake news.

This is the kind of shit that people bitch and moan about the MSN doing all the time.

The question is why some lunatic would even introduce such a travesty of a bill.

 

[healthmyths]

2 straws per per person per day! Everyday!

Oh yes, easily that much. Every refill...new straw. And the waste.... I ordered stock for a restaurant, and it was almost baffling. We went through easily 10 times as many straws as people we served.

Anecdotal story! You are making your experience the rule and not the exception.
A) babies can't use straws.
B) some old people can't use straws.
C) Not all restaurants provide straws.

500,000,000 x 365.25 days in a year is 182,625,000,000 billion a year.

Va Plant Produces 4B Drinking Straws Annually
The above article states this company produces 4 billion straws a year.

The below link counts 15 companies in the USA that make straws.
15 companies times 4 billion per company is 60 billion straws.
https://www.manta.com/mb_35_E829002W_000/straws_drinking_made_from_purchased_material
The 60 billion straws PRODUCED is only 32% of the purported 182.6 Billion straws used!

It doesn't make sense!

The number is not accurate when it was based on a survey done by a 9 year old kid!

You are not approaching it correctly. it is claimed that Americans consume 500 million straws per day. It's not hard at all to believe. In fact, it might be low.

NO the 9 year old kid called straw manufactures in 2011 and said that was the number he found to be manufactured!
YET Here is the annual production of the
D&W also holds the title as the largest drinking straw manufacturer in North America, says Clay Davis, senior vice president. The company churns out 22 million straws a day – roughly 3,000 cases – in the Fountain Inn plant alone, distributing throughout the U.S. and Canada. D&W Fine Pack’s customers include food powerhouses such as Sysco, U.S. Foods and many national chain restaurants as well as school systems across the country.
Inside D&W Fine Pack - Upstate Business Journal
NOTE the LARGEST manufacturer produces 8 billion straws a year!
So we know the largest does 8 billion a year and the article about the Virginia plant does 4 billion... or an average between the two of 6 billion a year.
15 straw manufacturers at 6 billion each year is a total of 90 billion a year! That is still less then the 182.6 billion the 9 year old kid's survey which is the basis of
many stupid dumb inaccurate stories saying 500,000,000 straws a day!

MY point is simple. NO one seems to when they write the stories that were used to write the bill ever used common sense and said WAIT!!!
500 million straws a day would mean every person in the USA would have to use almost 2 straws a day! Totally impossible as not all people go to a restaurant or use a straw
every day! Again common sense!

 

[healthmyths]

2 straws per per person per day! Everyday!

Oh yes, easily that much. Every refill...new straw. And the waste.... I ordered stock for a restaurant, and it was almost baffling. We went through easily 10 times as many straws as people we served.

Anecdotal story! You are making your experience the rule and not the exception.
A) babies can't use straws.
B) some old people can't use straws.
C) Not all restaurants provide straws.

500,000,000 x 365.25 days in a year is 182,625,000,000 billion a year.

Va Plant Produces 4B Drinking Straws Annually
The above article states this company produces 4 billion straws a year.

The below link counts 15 companies in the USA that make straws.
15 companies times 4 billion per company is 60 billion straws.
https://www.manta.com/mb_35_E829002W_000/straws_drinking_made_from_purchased_material
The 60 billion straws PRODUCED is only 32% of the purported 182.6 Billion straws used!

It doesn't make sense!

The number is not accurate when it was based on a survey done by a 9 year old kid!

You are not approaching it correctly. it is claimed that Americans consume 500 million straws per day. It's not hard at all to believe. In fact, it might be low.

Eco-Cycle is unable to provide any data to back up this number, telling Reason that it was relying on the research of one Milo Cress. Cress—whose Be Straw Free Campaign is hosted on Eco-Cycle's website—tells Reason that he arrived at the 500 million straws a day figure from phone surveys he conducted of straw manufacturers in 2011, when he was just 9 years old.
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

 

[Issa]

Meanwhile in the Mecca of conservatives Texas:
Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos. LOL

Federal appeals overturned that statue over a decade ago and rightfully so. You're still good with CA sending people to prison for serving plastic straws?

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

Let me ask you this is this a law already ?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

Yep, and the headline was that Cali was going to fine waiters. Which is a fake headline since the law has not even been debated yet, let alone passed and signed into law.

Who serves customers in a restaurant? Surely, you can do simple deductive reasoning.

Let me break this down really slowly for you.

Since this bill has not even been debated on, let alone voted on or signed into law, NOBODY is getting fined for giving someone a straw.

Maybe eventually the headline will be accurate, but as of today it is fake news.

This is the kind of shit that people bitch and moan about the MSN doing all the time.

The question is why some lunatic would even introduce such a travesty of a bill.

And that is a fine question, but the fake headline takes away from that question.

Again, this is the same thing that we see every day from all sorts of news outlets, false and misleading headlines as they know most people do not read more than the headline and maybe the first 2 sentences.

If it was a fake headline about Trump you would be having a hissy fit right now.

 

[Issa]

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

Bill Text - AB-1884 Food facilities: single-use plastic straws.

Yep, and the headline was that Cali was going to fine waiters. Which is a fake headline since the law has not even been debated yet, let alone passed and signed into law.

Who serves customers in a restaurant? Surely, you can do simple deductive reasoning.

Let me break this down really slowly for you.

Since this bill has not even been debated on, let alone voted on or signed into law, NOBODY is getting fined for giving someone a straw.

Maybe eventually the headline will be accurate, but as of today it is fake news.

This is the kind of shit that people bitch and moan about the MSN doing all the time.

The question is why some lunatic would even introduce such a travesty of a bill.

I bet you his a GOP member lol

 

[healthmyths]

Eco-Cycle is a privately held company in Boulder, CO .

Categorized under Wholesale Recycling Centers. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $50 to 100 million and employs a staff of approximately 50 to 99.
And these are the people that depended on a 9 year old doing a phone survey in 2011! And these numbers are bandied about as if they are REAL!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

NO the 9 year old kid called straw manufactures in 2011 and said that was the number he found to be manufactured!

Not as I understand it. This is the number delivered, and those weren't all american companies.

Fast food restaurants serve 50 million customers/day in the US. Think of all the stirrer straws at bars and coffee shops... the straws dropped on the ground never used... a straw attached to every juice box...

500 million might actually be low.

 

[healthmyths]

It is estimated that 500 million of plastic straws are used daily in the United States.

That statistic was used in 2013! and to this day is still used(four years later)- which to be quite frank with you, Plastic Continents hasn’t been able to find real evidence on the exact number for 2017, nor have the sites who have made this statement ever posted a source for their findings.
What ever happened to Milo Cress?

Again my point is where is the common sense in asking "is that a valid number"?? 500,000,000 a day? Didn't make sense to me!

 

[Cellblock2429]

Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

"We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans," Calderon explained in a press release.

Democrats saving the world from soppy straws

More fake headlines from the Trump brigade!

/----/ What's fake about it? California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

 

[healthmyths]

NO the 9 year old kid called straw manufactures in 2011 and said that was the number he found to be manufactured!

Not as I understand it. This is the number delivered, and those weren't all american companies.

Fast food restaurants serve 50 million customers/day in the US. Think of all the stirrer straws at bars and coffee shops... the straws dropped on the ground never used... a straw attached to every juice box...

500 million might actually be low.

OK... 50 million customers using 1 straw is 1/10th of the 500,000,000! Don't you find that just a little off?
OK think...let's go with a straw attached to every juice box!
sales of bottled juice in U.S. 7.2 billion. OK 7.2 billion straws... or 20 million straws...per day... so 50 million fast food, 20 million juice 70 million! 14% of the 500 million!
Topic: U.S. Juice and Smoothie Market

It's just so funny people throw about these statistics without using some common sense!
500,000,000 is a big number and based on what I've shown so far grossly exaggerated!

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Simply pure insanity is taking place here. It would be a blessing if these recent earthquakes would slice off California from the rest of America.

California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

 

[Uncensored2008]

California is determined to make Venezuela look rational and successful.

I live here and the ruling Junta of Kim Jong Brown is literally imploding. The state is dead broke and the Communists have done everything short of armed hold ups to rob the productive members of society.

The vile pile of shit Kevin McCarty has introduced legislation to have the CHP start robbing motorists at gun point to fill the massive greedy maw of the ruling party.

Okay, he hasn't actually introduced the bill - yet.

Brown and his entire criminal gang in the Assembly and Senate need to be dragged into the public square, flogged, tarred and feathered, and ridden out of the state on a rail.

Out elections are entirely rigged, there is no legitimacy to the ruling Communists.