A&W Canada, the second largest hamburger chain in the Great White North, has recently decided to ditch plastic straws at all of their locations (the Canadian A&W chain has been a wholly different company since 1972) and instead offer biodegradable paper straws. Of course, transitioning to paper straws has left the burger chain with a lot of extra plastic strawsâabout 140,000 of them.
Rather than continue serving plastic straws until theyâve exhausted their supply, or worse yet, throwing them away, A&W commissioned a sculpture made up of their leftover straws.
