#like i'm seeing shit say it's more worth trying to put them in compost lol

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Oh yeah I looked up the single use plastic ban and it's honestly really weird? Like they say you'll be fined for distributing eg plastic straws but also they make it sound super easy to get them behind the counter, like you don't even need proof of disability or anything???

You just go to a cafe or store and hope they sell them, apparently, and if they do after you presumably explain yourself they just give them to you. But then how do you enforce this ban? How do you know who is "supposed" to have these straws or not?

All I'm saying is there's easier ways to deal with plastic pollution. *cough*focus on the large corporations who are the biggest polluters*cough* Also, if you care so much about the environment, quit the logging and fossil fuel industry support, Daniel Andrews.

lol funny i mention logging because isn't paper like the most common alternative to plastic straws

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, this just feels like a poorly thought out excuse to look like they're doing something even as people protest stuff like the Victorian government cutting down trees with First Nations cultural importance for... some roads.

Anyway fuck the Victorian government and their fake greenwashed attempts at environmentalism. Putting the onus on consumers instead of companies producing plastic is bad enough, but being shitty polluters elsewhere? Yeah, not cool.