{"id":2015531,"date":"2023-08-29T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:07:29","slug":"turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper straws are harmful to both your health and the environment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fturns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015531&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Are Paper Straws Worse Than Plastic? New Study Reveals Surprising Findings<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you hate those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/100-facts-elon-musk-owned-twitter-should-now-allow-people-to-say-without-getting-banned\/\" title=\"100 Facts Elon Musk-Owned Twitter Should Now Allow People To Say Without Getting Banned\">paper straws<\/a> with every fiber of your being? Well, good news \u2014 you might have a\u200c medical and environmental excuse never to use them again. \u2063Turns \u200bout,\u200d new information suggests \u2062they are worse for both you and the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u2063 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/08\/28\/paper-straws-worse-than-plastic-pfas-study\/70702090007\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">study out of Belgium published in the journal<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Food\u200b Additives and Contaminants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  suggests that \u201cforever chemicals\u201d or \u201cPFAS\u201d \u2014 officially called per- and\u200d polyfluoroalkyl substances \u2014 were found in the majority of both paper \u2064and \u200dbamboo straws tested. \u2064Such\u2063 chemicals have the potential to cause\u200c cancer and other\u2063 ailments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Per the study, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eighteen different PFAS \u200bwere\u2063 detected in total \u2014 and\u200b the most common one was banned globally\u2064 in 2020.\u2063 Those chemicals are also bad for\u2063 the environment. According to the\u200b study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-shuns-public-transit-takes-suv-convoy-to-pizza-hut-for-bicycle-purchase\/\" title=\"Buttigieg Shuns Public Transit, Takes SUV Convoy to Pizza Hut for Bicycle Purchase\">plastic straws<\/a> contain fewer PFAS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As flagged by \u2063USA Today, the \u200cstudy concluded, \u201cThese \u2018eco-friendly\u2019 plant-based straws are not necessarily a more sustainable\u2063 alternative to\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-alarmists-panic-over-heat-wave-turns-out-it-was-caused-by-a-volcano\/\" title=\"Climate alarmists in a panic over heat wave discover it was actually caused by a volcano.\">plastic\u200b straws<\/a> because they can be considered as \u2062an additional\u200d source of\u200d PFAS exposure in humans and \u200bthe environment\u200b (e.g., after degradation in\u2063 landfills or through incomplete incineration).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is worth remembering that before the\u200d world\u2062 lost \u2064its mind \u200dover COVID and masking, it went bananas over\u2062 plastic straws, thanks in large part to\u200b a viral photo of a sea\u2064 turtle with debris up its nose.\u2064 In 2015, an online petition using that exact image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/360\/196\/292\/starbucks-stop-using-plastic-straws\/\">amassed nearly\u200d 150,000 signees<\/a> while demanding that Starbucks ban\u200c the little suckers. Starbucks \u200dsuccumbed and pledged \u200cto go paper or another alternative to plastic by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the West followed, and <em>voila, <\/em>millions around the world have <em>suffered<\/em> from flimsy drinking devices. Turns out, we may have also been harming our \u2064bodies and the planet in the process.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, this story serves as another reminder \u2014 if it seems like mass hysteria is gripping the nation \u2063and that corporations \u200dor politicians\u2064 are getting caught up in it, you\u2019re probably being sold a false bill of goods \u2064in one way or another.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-j7qwjs\">\n<div id=\"post-body-text\">\n<div class=\"e1nzmkc90 css-15jw47d\">\n<p><i>The views expressed \u2062in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do\u200c not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contaminants reveals that paper straws, despised by many, are not only disliked for their texture but also pose health and environmental risks. Recent findings from a Belgian study published in Food Additives and Contaminants indicate that these straws are even more detrimental to both humans and the planet than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2015532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}