People often talk about swapping out plastic straws for other materials to help the ocean/fish and the environment, but they also complain about paper straws falling apart easily. Other alternatives that are slightly more sturdy like straws made of straw don’t seem very common.
But do we even need straws? My first reaction was that any liquid can be drunk directly from the vessel it’s in, and straws just add another level of convenience. If we don’t want to use plastic straws and the alternatives mostly suck (actually all straws suck 🤓), why not just ditch straws entirely?
In Germany plastic straws are forbidden these days. There’s straws made of metal or wood still. Can’t comment on the larger question tho. I’ve never used straws to begin with.
An Italian restaurant where I grew up used to have pasta straws. They could get a little gross by the end of a meal, but it was also something to munch one when you finished your drink and were sitting around. If one of those happened to make it to a waterway something could just eat it, or it would eventually just disintegrate.
It’s not perfect, but seems better than plastic or paper, and it’s disposable, which I assume isn’t the intent for metal or wood straws, which would need to be cleaned.
Huh, neat. I’ve heard of pasta straws in private use but an Italian restaurant, that’s cool. Yeah wooden and metal straws get cleaned. Tho wooden straws would eventually be burned I assume. And metal maybe remelted?