Part One
If you watch TV, you may have seen the commercial asking you to take action due to all the plastic straws in the oceans. The number of straws in the oceans is in the millions and these straws never deteriorate. This has been an item of discussion on TV and in various magazines. News show panels discuss it. Groups protest the use of plastic straws. It is harmful to the environment. Of course the missing piece is what do we replace it with?
Part Two
The link to the Bloomberg BusinessWeek article below is about a company that offers a replacement. The company is Aardvark and the product is paper straws. I remember paper straws and why restaurants migrated to plastic. In a nutshell, paper straws did not hold its shape long and it was hard to push it through the hole on the lid. Hence, the birth of plastic straws. And when they were introduced, you could bend it and it would not lose its shape or stop the follow of the liquid (see pic). That made them fun. As a kid, you could shoot spitballs with far greater accuracy (and that is important).
You may think I am for plastic straws. I am not. I can always get another straw, but I cannot always get another planet.
As you read the article, you will see several firms went to Aardvark to purchase the paper straws. But Aardvark took great strides to ensure the quality of the product and eventually sought out a partner. Note when Aardvark restarted manufacturing paper straws. You will find several other sections of the article interesting.
However, in the end, everything old is new again.
Link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-05/inside-the-only-company-that-makes-paper-straws-in-america?srnd=businessweek-v2
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