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Kristen Tate - Stossel TV Drinking StrawsWould it surprise you to hear that banning plastic drinking straws will accomplish nothing? How about this; that 500 million straws a day “fact” everyone is repeating came from a 9-year old kids’ school project. Or, that U.S. straws in the waste stream are a sliver of a fraction of 1% of all the plastic waste the ends up in the ocean.

I took a few shots at Starbucks and the virtue-signaling enviro-leftists last week over such bans, but these new revelations from Kristin Tate at Stossel TV add to the debate.

Courtesy of Reason.com here’s Kristen with her report on another Hollywood media “firestorm” that’s much ado about nothing.

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