• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There is a learning curve with metal straws, if you only used plastic / paper. I hit my teeth so often with the metal one when I first got it.

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      5 months ago

      Ours have little silicone bits on the end to use as a mouthpiece to prevent that. We also have some silicone straws which work fine.

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          5 months ago

          One piece of silicon that will last thousands of uses vs entire straw of single use plastic each time.

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          5 months ago

          Yeah, silicone is in a weird spot where it’s kinda a plastic and kinda rubber.

          But that’s less important because they aren’t single use. You’re going to use them time and again.

          Same reason I never felt bad about buying the “single use” plastic grocery bags from Aldi that they’ve discontinued - I still have ones from my first visit to an Aldi that I continue to reuse.

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        5 months ago

        Sounds like Germ City to me tbh. Straws are bad enough already without nooks and crannies