A small straw has now become a necessity in people’s daily life. At present, although plastic straws are mostly used, people are gradually realizing that discarded plastic straws will cause a great burden to the environment. With the rapid development of food packaging industry in recent years, the advantages of paper straws are particularly obvious.
No matter milk, beverages, or coffees, drinking straws has become a standard feature. As a kind of straws, plastic straws are widely used in the food industry because of their low cost and simple process. At present, most of the drinking straws we use in our daily life are plastic straws. Although plastic straws are convenient for people’s lives, their impact on the environment is immeasurable. In America, people throw away 500 million straws every day. According to “one less straw”, these straws together can circle the earth two and a half times.
Compared with plastic straws, paper straws are made of paper, which is an environmentally friendly straw. It can degrade and disappear into the soil after a few months. Without causing any pollution to the environment, it is more conducive to green and sustainable development. Obviously, It is especially important to use paper straws instead of plastic ones. However, the production process of paper straws is relatively complicated and the cost is high. In order to maximize profits, many food businesses reject paper straws. Therefore, it is obviously difficult to replace plastic straws with paper straws.
In recent years, with the improvement of people’s awareness of environmental protection, consumers are willing to pay for enterprises with a sense of social responsibility. Coupled with the introduction of the national “plastic restriction order” and environmental protection policies, more and more food industries have begun to try paper straws, and the domestic paper straw market is also showing a rising trend.
Since plastic straws cause excessive waste of resources, and the pollution to the environment is becoming more and more serious after discarding, it is obviously unrealistic to let people quit straws, and the use of paper straws instead of plastic straws will become a possibility. In the future, the development of the food packaging industry In China, the replacement of plastic straws by paper straws will become an inevitable trend, and the development prospects of paper straws can be expected in the future.
