Last week, Bon Appetit Management Co., a food service company with more than 1,000 locations across the country from ball parks to museums, announced that it would phase out the eco-unfriendly straws, effective immediately.
(Bon Appetit bought 16.8 million straws for the fiscal year that ended August 2017, according to USA Today.)
The week before, Alaska Airlines said that it was banning plastic ones, following an initiative by a Girl Scout. (The airline used 22 million of them in 2017.)
Cities like Vancouver have banned them; so have Scotland and Taiwan. There are proposed bans for all ...
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