Banning straws has to be the tiniest, least impactful change we can possibly make to reduce unnecessary plastic waste. It's a perfect representation of how we're all doomed because nobody wants to give up the tiniest bit of luxury when it comes to attempts to fix global problems.

I'm all for action against excessive packaging (as long as we don't cause food waste, i.e. by banning the plastic keeping fruits and vegetables edible for much longer) but nested plastics seems to be rather rare in my experience. Even sixpacks of cans come in cardboard packaging these days. It's been months since I last saw nested plastic packaging.

I've never seen any law specifically targeting straws. Most of the laws target single-use plastics, such as plastic cutlery and plates. The people focusing on straws seem to be "the damn liberal environmentalist communists want to make your life worse" types of media.