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A growing crowd of clubs, bars and restaurants in and around Vancouver have reached their last straw.

The watering holes and eateries, in locations that stretch from the ‘burbs to downtown’s Granville Strip, are ditching disposable, plastic straws amid a broader push by policy-makers and environmental groups to cut down on the reliance of single-use plastics. Some, like the Commodore Ballroom, have barred them entirely, while others like White Spot have made them available by request only.

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Warren Erhart, president of White Spot and Triple O’s, said he supported the movement to cut straws.

“I think that clearly it’s the right thing to do from the point of the environment,” Erhart said, adding that he’s now working with suppliers to test solid-paper straws that would work for drinks like milkshakes. A strawless lid could be next.

“A lot of people are telling us they can do without that straw, thank you very much,” Erhart said, adding that elementary-aged youngsters are among those customers, telling servers their Pirate Paks don’t need them.