If you want a straw with your drink, you may soon have to ask at California restaurants.
San Francisco restaurants are no longer allowed to offer customers plastic utensils or disposable food accessories with their orders. If customers would like chopsticks, napkins, beverage lids and sleeves, stirrers and straws, they will have to request them with their purchase. That goes for takeout, in-house dining and delivery options, but self-service areas are still allowed to continue carrying those items.
The law took effect July 1. The Single-Use Foodware Plastics, Toxics and Litter Reduction Ordinance is stricter than a similar law approved by the Los Angeles City Council in April.prohibits restaurants from providing unrequested disposable plastic straws. According to a September 2018 report, plastic straws were the sixth-most collected item on California Coastal Cleanup days from 1988 to 2016, behind cigarettes, food packaging, caps and lids, plastic bags, and plastic utensils and dishes.
“Just adding the intervention of having people ask if you want utensils gets rid of the lowest-hanging form of waste — stuff people don’t even want,” Nick Lapis, director of advocacy at Californians Against Waste, a Sacramento advocacy group, told the Chronicle.posted printable cards for restaurants to inform customers that straws are available upon request.
I’m sure they have a fork in their cardboard box
ArtemisChats Same here; if you want a straw, you must ask for one.
Plastic needles and human feces perfectly fine
That’s why I invested in the tools
But keep giving out free needles to all the drug addicts which end up all over the streets and let them shit and piss everywhere.
Now, do a law that punishes corporations that knowingly pollute our planet and actually follow through.
But needles and feces are OK. What the hell is wrong with these radical socialist democrats? Vote them out!
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I wish they’d do that here. Even when I say no utensils with takeout or delivery they still put them in the bag. I end up adding them to the landfill.
San Francisco streets are a complete toxic waste and their ignorant politicians are worried about plastic straws in a restaurant.
But it’s still ok to go out and poop on the sidewalk.
I wonder how this may raise the cost of food for some places. May cause some places to close ... Or cause people not able to afford to eat out. Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.
More lib idiocy. Do the straws and plastic forks just march to a shore and then throw themselves into the sea? The problem is humans. But, libs blame the object, not the person, for unacceptable behavior. Libs are truly the enemy of Americans.