• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      The manufacture of straws on that scale can’t be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?

      Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.