Making a law over this is entirely shtuuuupid.
If there was a better alternative, then it would already be in use.
What makes me even more mad is that the plastic straw is an excellent use of plastic and energy. It is able to be made very thin and extruded easily.
Paper straws, in comparison, use much more energy to create, as well as uses a lot of fairly nasty chemicals. And then, the wax.
If we actually used trash burning power plants, it would even end its life giving most of its energy back.
Why don't politicians work on trash burning power plants?
Because it's a practical market solution that doesn't let them fulfill their title of "lawmaker" or take stands that sound good in a news clip?