Sentences with phrase «straw in a plastic cup»

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Maybe it's making for «no straw» in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie in your own cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins, buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.

For instance, in her Scary Mommy post on «how to survive an airplane ride with kids,» Joelle Wisler advises to skip bringing «a million toys» and instead to «ask your flight attendant for a couple of plastic cups and some straws.»

Jennifer seems to enjoy the blue slushie, which is fine until you get to the bottom when you have to scoop out the ice and it's dark in the theatre and you can't see and the straw makes the grating sound against the plastic of the cup.

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With acute awareness of the aesthetic and physical properties of the materials she uses, Donovan takes mass quantities of a single everyday item — tape, plastic cups, straws, pins, toothpicks, buttons — and «assembles them in different ways, providing the viewer with a compelling, perceptually transformative experience,» according to The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which named the artist a recipient of one of its 2008 «genius» grants.

For nearly two decades Donovan has employed the use of everyday items — plastic cups, straight pins, buttons and straws — in her practice, transforming their most basic structural aspects into shape - shifting assemblages that sprawl across walls, floors and ceilings.

With 100 million 16 - ounce servings of cold - pressed juice being sold in the U.S. in 2015 alone, as the article states, that's a ton of plastic cups and straws whose life span lasted mere minutes, only to linger indefinitely in landfills and waterways.

These include legislative responsibility to pass laws that protect the environment, consumer responsibility to refuse single - use plastics such as polystyrene cups, lids, and straws, and corporate responsibility to design products with end use in mind.

Flanked by the 12 - foot - tall Cup Monster, people in trash and cup costumes, two 11 - year - olds from Canada who collected 300,000 + petition signatures, and green boxes filled with 973,000 + petition signatures — the coalition celebrated Starbucks» recent announcement on recyclable and compostable cups, while drawing attention to the company's failed commitments on increasing reusable cup usage and eliminating plastic straws and other plastic packagiCup Monster, people in trash and cup costumes, two 11 - year - olds from Canada who collected 300,000 + petition signatures, and green boxes filled with 973,000 + petition signatures — the coalition celebrated Starbucks» recent announcement on recyclable and compostable cups, while drawing attention to the company's failed commitments on increasing reusable cup usage and eliminating plastic straws and other plastic packagicup costumes, two 11 - year - olds from Canada who collected 300,000 + petition signatures, and green boxes filled with 973,000 + petition signatures — the coalition celebrated Starbucks» recent announcement on recyclable and compostable cups, while drawing attention to the company's failed commitments on increasing reusable cup usage and eliminating plastic straws and other plastic packagicup usage and eliminating plastic straws and other plastic packaging.

Taiwan's Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with a number of environmental organizations, proposed an ambitious 12 - year timeline Tuesday to eliminate four types of single - use plastics — takeaway beverage cups, drinking straws, shopping bags and disposable tableware — by 2030 to tackle plastic pollution.

In order to comply with Santa Cruz County's ordinance, Starbucks quietly stopped using plastic - lined cups and plastic straws in multiple locations in the county in September 201In order to comply with Santa Cruz County's ordinance, Starbucks quietly stopped using plastic - lined cups and plastic straws in multiple locations in the county in September 201in multiple locations in the county in September 201in the county in September 201in September 2017.

Adopt a single - use plastic free lifestyle by investing in reusable cups and cutlery, purchasing loose produce instead of packaged produce, and saying no to plastic straws, bags, bottles, and takeaway containers

If Starbucks would put as much effort into selling branded reusables as they do in marketing their Frappuccinos in single - use plastic dome cups (with «not so green» plastic straws), imagine the impact they would have worldwide.

Between supermarkets eliminating to - go cups, the BBC eliminating single - use plastics and Queen Elizabeth getting rid of straws, it does feel like there has been a dramatic shift in the conversation about plastics in the UK of late.

It is served in a large plastic cup with a straw.