San Francisco bans plastic straws, but streets are littered with free hypodermic needle caps By Katherine Lam | Fox News San Francisco closer to creating safe space for drug addicts Even as San Francisco bans plastic straws in an effort to clean up the city, the streets are now reportedly littered with plastic caps from free syringes. The orange plastic caps come from the free hypodermic needles that officials hand out to prevent diseases spreading among drug users. The city hands out an estimated 400,000 syringes each month for drug users, but has little control on how these needles are disposed of. The San Francisco Chronicle previously reported more than 154,000 needles end up in the streets, sidewalks, parks and playgrounds. Meanwhile, leaders in the California city are hoping to prevent plastic straws from washing up in the San Francisco Bay. The city unanimously approved in July a plan to ban plastic straws and stirrers, as well as food containers made with fluorinated chemicals. Items such as condiment packets and napkins will be given out at bars and restaurants upon request. But these days, the orange plastic syringe caps are freely found scattered on streets and sidewalks, the Washington Post reported. “Napkins, straws, and bags are available upon request,” sandwich shop Sentinel write on a menu footnote. “You can still get needles for free though. Welcome to SF.” Video Shocking video: Junkies shoot up in San Francisco station San Francisco Mayor London Breed told the newspaper that she wants residents and visitors to feel the city is “so clean.” “I want people to walk around this city and think, ‘Wow, it’s so clean here,’” Breed said. “I want people just hanging out in front of where they live and enjoying the weather, people of all races, able to live in dignity because they have a home and are able to make ends meet.” Breed said implementing the plastic straw ban is addressing a future problem, while working to clean the streets of items such as human feces, a Public Works crew dubbed the “poop patrol,” is addressing a current issue. “There are things that matter now, and there are things that matter for the future of our planet and the next generation of people growing up in this city,” she said. “We can’t just think about what we need to do now.” Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam
I got a strawberry lemonade, the fucking strawberry pieces would get stuck in the plastic straw. Wack Donalds!
You're just not going to eliminate litter by severely disadvantaged people. The best you can do is try to minimize it.
I was driving down a highway in the St. Louis area and following a newer compact with a nice looking family of four in it. Daddy was driving and the two kids were in the back seat. Suddenly, the driver's window rolls down. Then mom's window and then the kids' windows. First, out comes a milkshake carton, then some straws, then some paper bags and some paper hamburger wrappers. Everything came out all four windows just as the though the roadside was their personal garbage receptacle. People just aren't ashamed of ill behavior these days.
San Fransisco is dirty as fuck. Plastic straws are the least of the problem. Even the non-homeless people fucking stink there.
And when is the war on Bottled Water gonna start? Probably never, cuck ass liberals LOVE their overpriced bottled water. (real G's use glass....Mountain Valley Spring...holla if ya hear me)
That disgusts me. I ride the max green line quite a bit and see all the trash people have thrown out of their cars from the I205 off ramps. Disgusting and sad.
I said this all the while knowing that they just don't give a tinker's damn about the environment in St. Louis. When I was there they effectively recycled NOTHING. Trash was everywhere on the side of the roads. Cigarette butts were everywhere. When I smoked I never threw a cigarette butt on the ground.
I went there once, I had a blast! Last time in SF, there was human shit everywhere it was fucking gross.
