{"id":2015616,"date":"2023-08-29T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet-study\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:07:22","slug":"turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper straws found to be harmful for both health and the environment, reveals study."},"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\">28<\/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-study%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=2015616&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 \u200dPaper Straws \u2063Worse \u2062Than 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> \u2062with every fiber of your being? Well, good news \u2014 you might have a medical \u2063and environmental \u200cexcuse never to use them again. Turns \u2062out, new \u200cinformation suggests \u2064they are worse\u200b for both you and the\u2062 planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/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 \u200dpublished in the journal<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200bFood Additives and Contaminants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  suggests that \u201cforever chemicals\u201d or\u200c \u201cPFAS\u201d \u2014 officially \u200dcalled \u200bper- and polyfluoroalkyl substances\u200b \u2014 were found in the majority of both paper and bamboo straws tested. Such chemicals have the potential to cause cancer and other ailments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Per\u200d the study, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eighteen different PFAS were detected in total \u2014 and the most common \u200bone was banned globally in 2020. Those chemicals are also\u200d bad for the environment. According\u2064 to the study, plastic straws contain fewer PFAS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As flagged \u200dby USA Today,\u200d the study \u2063concluded, \u201cThese\u200d \u2018eco-friendly\u2019 \u2063plant-based straws are not necessarily a more sustainable alternative to plastic straws because they can\u2063 be considered as an additional source of\u200c PFAS exposure in humans and\u2062 the environment (e.g., after\u200d degradation in landfills\u2064 or through incomplete incineration).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is worth remembering that before \u2063the world lost\u2062 its mind \u2063over COVID \u2063and masking, it went bananas over \u200cplastic straws, thanks in\u200b large part to \u200da \u2063viral photo\u200c of a sea turtle \u200dwith\u200c debris up its nose. In 2015, \u200can online \u2064petition using that \u2063exact image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/360\/196\/292\/starbucks-stop-using-plastic-straws\/\">amassed nearly 150,000 signees<\/a> while demanding\u200d that Starbucks ban the little suckers. Starbucks succumbed and pledged to go \u200cpaper or another alternative to plastic by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The rest \u200cof the West\u200c followed, and <em>voila, \u200c <\/em>millions around the\u200d world have <em>suffered<\/em> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-paper-straws-are-bad-for-you-and-the-planet\/\" title=\"Paper straws are harmful to both your health and the environment.\">flimsy drinking devices<\/a>. Turns \u200dout, \u2063we may have also been harming our bodies and the planet in\u200c the process.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, this story serves as another reminder \u2063\u2014 if it seems like mass hysteria is gripping the nation and that corporations or politicians are getting caught up in it, you\u2019re probably being \u2063sold a false\u200d bill of goods in 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 \u200dviews expressed in this piece\u2064 are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent\u2064 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":2015617,"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-2015616","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\/2015616","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=2015616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}