Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for August 22, 2024

Um…Albertsons has packs of multi colored plastic straws. I put then in the dishwasher and th4y come out fine.

I use bamboo straws

Bendable stainless straws are a thing, but hard to clean. I’ll wait until I’m bedridden.

Slow day in the humor department.

I bought metal straws on Amazon. I like them!

Tropical Smoothie sells edible straws made of flavored sugar. I tried one; it was awful.

My wife bought some reusable straws. They are a pain to use and hard to clean.

Gary and Gerry must have been out of the loop concerning reusable straws. Also, for those saying theirs were hard to clean. Mine came with a skinny brush that make cleaning very easy. Amazon sells the brushes separately as well.

Betty and Bub are engaging in American’s favorite pastime – Complaining.

They make really good disposable paper straws, but they are rather expensive. Would add 5 cents to a drink.

You design a new straw, go to China for the manufacturing, expend massive amounts of energy and pollutants producing it, and additional consumption of fuel and energy to ship it across the ocean and then the continent. Congratulations….you’re environmentally responsible!!!

This ridiculous plastic straw hoo-bah is finally starting to fade away. As rsabourin above said, it’s all about looking like you care. You really want to show you care about the environment, push your state to require 10 cent or higher deposits on ALL drink bottles or cans, including water. MI has had this since November 2, 1976. Our return rate was all the way up to 95% in 2013, but is dropping. We may have to raise the deposit to say 20 cents. Another good step would be to require bottlers to only use Aluminum or glass as plastic does NOT really get recycled.

so say we all