Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi.
Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.
Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California’s lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon’s law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
“We need to create awareness around the issue of one-time use plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills, waterways, and oceans,” Calderon explained in a press release.
This isn’t just Calderon’s crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won’t be allowed to offer plastic straws or utensils as of July.
Read the entire article at Reason.
Image Credit: By Henri Sivonen from Helsinki, Finland (flickr: California State Capitol) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Now here’s an oxymoron — go to ‘reason to read all about an ‘unreasonable’ demand ??? :^)
Let’s have a straw poll on why President Donald J. Trump will be returned in 2020.
does this apply if an illegal immigrant waiter or waitress serves the straw, or are they exempt?
California has it’s collective head up it’s ***. Before you start something like this ask restaurants to use paper straws, they predate plastic straws. Isn’t there anyone that’s old enough to remember them and they are probably still available.
“California Continues To Prove The Insanity Of Liberalism”
Not all of us, just much of the leadership [for now].
California is filthy! I mean the streets, public restrooms, restaurants, ect. The normal people in California must be sick! I am so glad I left years ago. It used to be a beautiful place, but the Dumbocruds ruined it!
Well this is the LAST STRAW!
It is the straw that broke the camels back!
Please California become a Country ASAP. Then we can be rid of all their Politicians that are in the US Congress Adios Nancy Nut job and all the other crack pots