New York City arena latest place abandoning plastic straws
Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the home of the NBA’s Nets and NHL’s Islanders, said this week it’ll switch to strawless lids or straws made from compostable alternative materials by next year.
The affiliated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, on Long Island, will also drop plastic straws.
They’re the latest entities in a movement to eliminate plastic straws because of harmful environmental impacts.
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