Consequences of banning plastic straws. They can't use child slave-labor unless it's overseas— have you *any idea* how much it costs to hire fairies to clean the inside of all those reusable tubes? They *start* at double-time and a half, and it only goes up from there. Word on the street is that the idea was to hire illegal mexicans to do it, but the straws kept turning out dirtier than when they started.