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Which brands? Cant get at the supplementary materials. I bought a set of those IKEA bamboo straws, said to be 100% natural, and indeed I don't see why pfas would be needed on those; solid bamboo.
[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-00064...
But so does our drinking water afaik. The real news is that > PFAS are sometimes used as a water-resistant coating [on "paper" straws] Surprised Pikachu that paper isn't water resistent (though then why do they melt in your mouth? Are those straws the pure paper variant?). What we need is for people to be able to reuse the things. Return the reusable straw to any McDonald's worldwide for dishwashing and reuse, for ex…
Which brands? Cant get at the supplementary materials. I bought a set of those IKEA bamboo straws, said to be 100% natural, and indeed I don't see why pfas would be needed on those; solid bamboo.
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When drinking particularly acid drinks, juice, soda, etc., a straw significantly reduces the amount of erosion of your teeth.
Any link/source? Not that I don’t believe you just curious as it seems plausible but never chances across support for it
Paper straws are terrible.
It is important to know how much PFAS they contain, whether those amounts are higher than the wood feedstock (i.e., are PFAS being added), whether the amounts are medically relevant, and whether the amounts are more than the alternative. (And lets not kid ourselves, stainless steel straws are not a viable alternative.)
This smells like astroturfing in favor of plastic. The fact that something contains "traces" of PFAS is not that much of a revelation. Unfortunately, thanks to tragically insufficient environmental regulation, PFAS have gotten everywhere nowadays, so most naturally sourced ingredients will contain traces of PFAS. It is important to know how much PFAS they contain, whether those amounts are higher than the wood feedst…
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Straws require ridiculously small amounts of raw materials though, if you choose a material that increases the steel price by $1000/ton, then that adds a single extra cent to the costs of a 10g metal straw which then retails for a dollar a piece.
So you're saying you can cut it out and increase profit by a percentage point? That's pretty huge. I recall finance going ballistic on my division at one point because our profit margin dropped by a tenth of a percentage point (and yet was still well above fifty)
Think of the savings of slashing that finance department staff :)
why should stainless steel require pfas?