What do you call a “victory” that took a lot of political capital and then accomplished basically nothing?

What did the straw ban do? It’s certainly not reducing waste on its own in any significant way; if every single plastic straw was banned worldwide, its impact would still be tiny in comparison to the overall problem. There was a argument that it would get people to start thinking about how much waste is in their lives. That was six or seven years ago. None of that has come to pass, and I’d argue that it was obviously speculative even before anything took effect.

You can’t change anything that matters with this nickel and dime policy shit. It is not even worth the effort to push it.