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Ottawa says industry's challenge of single-use plastics ban will have no 'practical effect' (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As it turns out, the 57 millions straws (link is to Reason which as always is unreasonable about it) factoid was apparently a guess made by a nine-year-old several years ago. Other sources have it as close to 16 million, which is more plausible although still more than I would've guessed.