English straw words have three meanings, one refers to the straw or wheat straw, the second refers to the straw, the third refers to the worthless thing that is because 150 years ago, the earliest straw is really made of wheat straw or straw The most commonly used is a straw made from ryegrass, but since ryegrass is too easy to melt into a paste, straw has been widely used to make straw.
Edible straw
It was not until the 1960s that scientists invented plastic pipettes, and today billions of plastic pipets are consumed worldwide each day, a large proportion of which eventually will be released into the sea, creating a huge marine environment Destruction and pollution In recent three years, the global rapid and sustained growth of marine plastic pollutants has posed a tremendous threat to marine life, especially fish, and at the same time some of these fish will eventually be consumed by people. In fact, plastic The real threat to pollution is human health.
Now scientists have invented a straw-making technology that uses seaweed as a raw material, which looks like plastic but is edible, and manufacturers can easily add flavors and nutrients to the material so that This pipette tastes better and healthier.
Seaweed material can degrade quickly
Chelsea-Briandy, an environmental campaigner from Parsons School of Design in New York, invented an edible cup as early as college, and these cups made of biodegradable materials can greatly ease disposable plastic products Bring pollution problems.
As described at the beginning of the article, aspiration tubes are not worth anything and are discarded, and the new edible pipette now can not compete with a plastic pipette due to cost issues, but Chelsea are finding ways to raise even more More funds to achieve large-scale production, thereby reducing production costs.
Edible cup
She said that plastic pipets are widely used in sports venues, fast food shops, coffee shops or fruit juice shops. If these places can replace the drinking straw with degradable materials, even people who use the straw do not like to eat it and discard the straw, Nor will it cause damage to the environment because seaweed material can degrade rapidly in seawater, but Chelsea believes eating straw is an intriguing experience in itself and people are bound to embrace this environmentally friendly straw.