These bottles are often paired with reusable straws. The park also uses biodegradable paper straws and prohibits plastic straws, lids, and balloons. Type 5 is polypropylene and makes up syrup bottles, straws, Tupperware, and some automotive parts. Bioplastics are used for disposable items, such as packaging, crockery, cutlery, pots, bowls, and straws. Hollow papaya stalks are then dipped into this and used as straws for blowing bubbles. Various independent restaurants have also stopped using plastic straws. Unlike stalactites, stalagmites never start out as hollow "soda straws". Different formations of speleothems include columns, soda straws, draperies, helictites, and popcorn. These include flowstones, stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, soda straws, calcite rafts and columns. Advocates have preferred laws that still allow plastic straws to be offered upon request. These include flowstones, stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, soda straws and columns. ALEC has promoted draft bills for restrictions on single-use plastic drinking straws. In 2019, Longmeadow, Massachusetts banned plastic straws and polystyrene packaging. Disabled activists criticized the shift away from plastic straws as ableist. Under the law, restaurants are only allowed to provide single-use plastic straws upon request.