NJ was going to ban plastic straws so stores stopped selling them. You had to ask for one if you went to a restaurant or a fast food take out. Then stores started to sell waxed paper straws. No one was buying them so the stores went back to selling plastic straws and the state legislature did not push the ban. The whole thing is so tangled up.
Looks like Canada is practice ground for the USA. It is going to piss off people eventually to the point that it will become political.