“If we don’t take action, there’ll be more plastic in the sea than fish in 50 years!” a report has said that the problem of white pollution is increasingly severe. It takes 5 seconds to produce a plastic product and 5 minutes to use it, but 500 years to degrade it. Thus, every country has called on the plastic ban and environmental-friendly substitute.
There are many substitutes for disposable plastic straws, such as paper straws, wheat straws, glass straws, stainless steel straws, and edible straws. However, in terms of the cost, traditional non-degradable disposable plastic straws cost less, while according to the E-commerce platform, most of 100 paper straws cost 7 to 15 RMB, 0.07-0.15 RMB for each straw. On top of that, reusable glass straws and stainless steel straws are respectively 2.5 to 4 RMB and 6-8 RMB, pricing out of non-degradable disposable plastic straws. In light of future trends, paper straws will be the best substitute for plastic straws.
Paper straw is the new substitute for traditional plastic straw in drinking. At the same time, it is also an environmental-friendly and practical product that is utterly degradable in the natural environment, harmless to the environment, recyclable to another use, and available for generating power as fuel.
