Always seemed like greenwashing to care about the straw in the drink that’s on a plastic cup with a plastic lid from the beans shipped in a plastic bag and render the experience of trying to drink it as tedious as possible.

I believe the issue with straws is they were hard to recycle because they were lightweight and often mingled with other materials, such as cups, napkins, and food waste.

They were generally made from PP which is widely recycled as a material.

They are also commonly littered and as they don't break down in the environment led the not only being unsightly but also clogging up waterways and direct damage to wildlife. Paper straws can still be littered, but break down so don't cause the same physical problems in the longer term.

The solution is not to unban them, it's to ban those plastic things too. And c'mon, paper straws are fine, people whining about it really just do it to vice signal against ecology.