Plastic and Stainless Steel Straw Hysteria

This article is about straw usage on a daily basis and states that in most cases straw usage is unnecessary. I am not writing about out of ordinary activities that actually might require straws.

The stainless steel straw craze

Slowly, all youtube gurus have started to use stainless steel straws. I’m just watching their videos amazed by the fact that:

They need to drink with a straw.
They drink all kind of stuff with a straw (lemonade, coffee, smoothies, milkshakes etc.)
They don’t punch their teeth with the inox thingy.

I understand that this craze comes from the fact that people use too much plastic. But… but… but… why the need to drink everything with a straw?! Also, there may be times in life when plastic straws could actually come in handy. So why adopt extreme mesures when we could educate ourselves?

Ways to reduce straw usage

I don’t use plastic straws not because there is a modern craze about it, but because I just simply drink what I need to drink without further complications.

1. No junk food

Since I don’t use to eat junk food, I don’t usually drink some unhealthy juice from a big cup with a … plastic straw.

So, before ordering stainless steel straws, how about stop eating junk food and stop drinking tons of sugary water? Also, what about those cups? Aren’t those garbage as well? How about making less waste?

2. Brew your own coffee

Since Starbucks became such a big thing, all girls started to create tons of waste because of those plastic straws and that unmistakeable Starbucks coffee cup. First of all, it is unhealthy to drink such stuff on a daily basis and secondly, it is WASTE. Buying a stainless steel straw won’t make up for all the waste you’ve been creating. And no, it is not a “small step”. It is just an extreme measure for a problem that most of these people don’t actually want to solve.