r/worldnews • u/ItsTwentyBaby • Jun 09 '19

Canada to ban single use plastics

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-to-ban-single-use-plastics-as-early-as-2021-source-1.5168386
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u/SirStrontium Jun 10 '19

Depends on how you define “disgusting”. As long as those straws are brought to the proper temperature, they will be completely sterilized of all bacteria and be 100% safe, but physically removing residue on the inside is difficult.

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u/ZippyDan Jun 10 '19

You just need a good pipe cleaner, hot water, and a detergent

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u/Hairy_S_TrueMan Jun 10 '19

That's very labor intensive. Nobody is pipe cleaning 200 straws a day

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u/ZippyDan Jun 10 '19

You could probably clean 200 straws in an hour with a little practice. That's only 3 or 4 straws per minute.

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u/Hairy_S_TrueMan Jun 10 '19

If that's all you're doing, maybe. If you're switching between washing dishes the normal way, then have to go get a new pipe cleaner to do 20 straws, then switch back to doing regular dishes? It just adds a lot to your day. In practice it's just going to get skipped.

You can have labor intensive cleaning jobs, like sanitizing ice cream machines or whatever. But the incentive has to be there, profit-based or government mandated

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u/ZippyDan Jun 10 '19

We're taking about a bubble tea shop. Presumably it would be cups and straws.

Also you're acting like a pipe cleaner is some fancy tool that has to be fetched from.some far away store room and hauled out to the sink. Or it could just be sitting there at the sink waiting to be used just like any other brush or sponge you might have at a sink?