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Gadgets Ready to turn the kitchen into your new safe space? These appliances and cooking aids are all you need. Boing Boing's Shop

china China announces ban of single-use plastic bags and straws Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The Omega AXL Inkless Pen never needs refilling and writes with actual metal Boing Boing's Shop

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Real things that actually exist Drinking straws that are made of pasta Rusty Blazenhoff

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death Woman killed by metal drinking straw Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets Don't give up straws. Get stainless steel ones instead. Boing Boing's Shop

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dictionary 'Single-use' edges out 'VAR,' 'floss,' 'gammon,' and 'plogging' as this dictionary's word of the year Rusty Blazenhoff

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Environment UK's indie music fests vow to end plastic bottles and straws at events Andrea James

pollution Diver encounters underwater trash cloud Rob Beschizza

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