Time wasted on plastic straw ban good for economy

“Yes, most plastic waste in the ocean comes from monsoon flooding of Asian rivers / cities that washes trash out into the ocean. Yes, plastic drinking straws are a trivial percentage of the waste stream. So yes, plastic drinking straw bans will have little effect on cleanliness of the environment.

“BUT, this effort does seem to be occupying environmentalists and satisfying millennial needs for social media virtue signalling, all people who have many MUCH worse ideas for "improving" the world. In other words, every day spent by these folks pushing for and preening over this lame plastic straw effort is one less day they can spend pushing for things that would be much more destructive. It's like getting the termites around your yard to focus on easting the dead log in the back rather than eating the rafters in your house.”

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2018/07/why-western-efforts-to-ban-plastic-drinking-straws-is-great-for-global-prosperity.html

Thanks, Coyote Blog, for the information on Asian countries responsible for most plastic trash that winds up in the ocean. It just seemed natural that Western industrial nations would be responsible, although I have seen no explanation on how plastic trash from Western Europe winds up in Asian oceans. For some reason, eco-types think people who have little don’t throw things away. Those types have traveled little outside the U.S., except to other presumed great polluters in other Western nations.

Here is a fact: Poor people toss more stuff on the ground than do people of means.