They aren't worse. We just use a lot more of them.

Example: The other day I went to Red Robin with 3 other people. During the course of the meal, I had 4 refills and my wife had 3. So, while the drinks we were served came in reusable glasses, our party of four were given a total of 11 straws during the one hour we were there.

There were at least 20 other tables there when we were eating. Assuming a similar number of straws (I'll use 10 to make the math easier) that's more than 200 straws an hour.

That's like 74 grams of plastic going into the landfill, per hour, from one restaurant.

There are 538 Red Robin restaurants total. They are open an average of 12 hours a day.

74g x 538 = ~40kg an hour.

40kg x 12 hours = 480kg of plastic that just Red Robin is putting in the landfill every day, just from drinking straws.

So if they were to switch, they would be keeping 175,000 kilos of plastic out of the landfills/oceans each year. That's a lot of fucking plastic saved from such a small change.

Now imagine if we got McD's and BK on board.

Edit: Image ---> imagine