A freak reusable straw accident is a tragedy but not a reason to back away from efforts to reduce disposable plastic, writes Mariel Garza. (via latimesopinion)
I was very sorry to hear about the British woman who died after impaling herself on a reusable metal drinking straw — and not just because it sounds like a terrible way to die. This single strange and horrible story has the potential to do further harm by whipping up fears over efforts to reduce single-use plastic.
Sixty-year-old Elena Struthers-Gardner fell in her Dorset home in southwest England on Nov. 22 while a carrying a with a stainless steel straw. The coroner’s report, which was released last week , said the 10-inch reusable drinking straw pierced her eye and caused a traumatic brain injury. She died the next day.Yet that’s exactly what the New York Times hinted last week in the story headlined “.” C’mon. This is a classic freak accident, not one incident in a spate of straw-related deaths.
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