plastic straws
Disposable drink tubes
Plastic straws are disposable drinking tubes made from petroleum-based plastic.
Once ubiquitous at restaurants and fast-food chains, they became a symbol of single-use plastic waste in the late 2010s, prompting bans and a shift toward paper or metal alternatives: The city banned plastic straws last year.
The phrase often appears in environmental debates about individual action versus systemic change.
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
- sippingDrinking in small mouthfuls
- bendyEasily flexed or curved
- disposableMade for one use
- single-useFor one application only
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- plasticwareTupperware, storage containers, measuring cups, mixing bowls, lunch boxes
- disposable culturedisposable razors, paper plates, paper cups, paper towels, disposable diapers
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