History of straws and available straws

Before the introduction of plastic straws, many different types of straws were used to drink water and wirelessly out.

Firstly, the type of straws made from barley stems, first the rice stalks will be sorted and checked manually, but the unsatisfactory stems will be removed, the segments can be used. will be cut and cleaned the outer shell, then bundled into each bundle and taken to restaurants to use as straws for customers. One bad thing about this straw is that they are easy to decompose and have a characteristic grassy smell that affects the taste of drinks, furthermore when decomposing they create a layer of suspended water in the water that looks very disjointed. America.

Straws made from glass.

Realizing the shortcomings of the straw made from barley stems, an inventor named Marvin Stone came up with a way to take paper around a pencil and use a glue to stick paper, so the straw made from paper born. Stone then registered the copyright and gradually took over the market of straws from barley stems. According to an article published in 1889 in Lafeyette Advertiser, Stone's own factory produced about 2 million straws a day, a terrible number but in fact still did not meet the demand of Americans. at that moment.

However, the form of straws made from paper will still decompose in the water, so until the 1960s of the last century, when plastic forms came to the throne, the replacement from paper to plastic was inevitable, with a series of advantages such as more durable, cheaper, no decomposition in water, color matching or transparency are all . And so the world is saying goodbye to straws from paper and welcomes plastic straws.

Straws made from candy.

In the period since then, especially in the early years of the 21st century, due to negative reports of blameless plastic waste, manufacturers have also come up with several different types of straws to find ways. limit the use of plastic straws. It is possible to list a series of types such as straws made from steel, stainless steel, tubes made from . cold stones, pipes made from bamboo body of Brush with bamboo with the price of $ 20 for 12 straws, straws made from Strawsome glass, like Starbucks, has the use of straws made from cakes like cookies for its Frappuccinos product. Both types of plastic straws, but synthesized from corn for easier recycling .

Straws made from stone.

All these types of straws cannot completely replace straws made of plastic, because in terms of cost, they are still too high. And what's more, what helps people reduce the use of plastic is consciousness, not the transition from one straw to the other.