China news network February 25, according to the United States "World Journal" reported that recently, the California AB1884 act prohibits full-service restaurants to take the initiative to provide customers with disposable plastic straws. Violators once found, will be fined. At present, some new Chinese restaurants are puzzled by the law. "You say we are fast food restaurants, but a lot of them also have sit-down meals and waiters serving them; You say we are comprehensive restaurants, but many customers are take-out, which can also be considered fast food restaurants."

California single-use plastic straws supply A new New Year's Day, many large beverage chains will put straws on the dining table for people to help themselves. (Photo: The United States "World Journal" reporter Yang Qing photo)

Los Angeles SAN Gabriel Valley a number of milk tea shop waiter said, guests ordered milk tea and light meals in the cafeteria, should not take the initiative to give guests straws, "clearly know that everyone is used to drinking milk tea with straws, but do not take the initiative to provide, is it very unreasonable?"

A number of Chinese-funded and Asian-funded beverage shops said that, especially many drinks are not simple drinks, but there are many ingredients, such as various flavors of bean paste, boba, jelly pellets. It's hard to drink without straws and it's easy to get dirty. Asking every consumer if they want a straw seems like an obvious question and only adds to the argument.

In recent years, California has made great efforts to promote environmental protection. After San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities in the United States to promote the ban on plastic bags, the restriction of straws, once again in the United States fired the first shot. Chen, who has been running a restaurant in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, said that in fact, environmental awareness has increased over the years. At restaurants like his 24-hour Western restaurant, drinks are usually served with the set menu, "but many customers don't use straws, especially male customers, who rarely use straws." Less than a third of his customers use straws.

However, some restaurants believe that whether a restaurant provides straws to customers depends on the needs of customers and the experience of the waiter. Mrs. Lin, who runs a medium and high-end restaurant in Basadina, said that many times, the waiters take the initiative to give guests straws, which is not only a sign of respect for the guests, but also a sign of the restaurant's class and the experience of the waiters. She questioned the environmental group's "total collection of 830,000 straws over 26 years, how big a threat it is."

Some Chinese Americans are opposed to a number of new environmental regulations set up in California in recent years. For example, Mrs. Zhang, a housewife, said that after California banned single-use plastic bags, thicker, larger and more difficult to decompose plastic bags are now appearing in the market. Many people switch to the use of permanent shopping bags, supermarkets and grocery stores at the same time to sell reinforced plastic bags, the same can not clean up the impact of plastic bags on the environment, to some extent, will cause problems even "worse."

However, many Chinese supermarkets said that after collecting money for plastic bags, the flow of plastic bags was indeed greatly reduced. A supermarket manager said that the consumption of plastic bags in his shop is now about 20% of that before the charge.

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