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@shpuld
This is why "green" advocacy is retarded. This is what "green" advocacy brings you, along with shitty straws that are no longer recyclable and now get to rot in your landfill.
@shpuld
Life without straws isn't worth living.
Staws themselves aren't terribly useful tho, their main use is complicated coctails and sodas (since you avoid washing your teeth in goga-gola :DDDD)
but real solution was with us all along - drink more water
@hj @shpuld
I've seen them, never tried buying any. I'm guessing they're steel? Would be easy enough to recycle, because you can easily separate them from other metals via magnets.
But as a daily use, cleaning them would be hard, and I wouldn't trust to drink with one in any kind of restaurant. Maybe specialized automatic straw cleaning equipment will appear at some point, but for now I don't trust reusable straws being hygienic.
but yeah i think those are stainless steel, there are even brass/gold-colored ones but i think those are also stainless steel with extra coating.
for home use those are probably the best option.
@hj @shpuld
Just running hot water is probably not enough to meet safety standards. Even if it's close to boiling water, it would have to have some significant pressure behind it (if you want fast cleaning).
If you're ok with the process taking a long time, you could probably adapt the same tech normal washing machines use, and make something smaller just for straws.
but yeah, i can't imagine where they'd put an industrial dishwasher in there.
as i mentioned before they should just sell cans/bottles. most of them here do already when doing delivery (except for hesburger which STILL uses cups when doing deliveres, literally why??)
I still remember the enormous industrial conveyor dishwasher of soviet era at my school's cafeteria.
maybe fast food restaurants want to avoid dishwashers at all. Only thing i remember from mcd is manually cleaning the trays with some cloth.