Are the paper straws that have been criticized on the hot search really that bad?

At the beginning of this year, the era of plastic straws officially came to an end with the implementation of the country’s “strictest” plastic plastic restrictions. Then paper straws were pushed onto the stage of history. However, due to various adverse experiences, paper straws were scolded by netizens on Weibo hot search.

Some media have commented on the whole, the point that netizens ridicule paper straws is that the paper straws are not bubbly, smelly, and too soft to poke open the cup seal of milk tea, and the most intolerable thing is that the paper straws can not suck up the pearls at the end of soaking, which is simply deprived of the fun of drinking milk tea. However, despite all the bad experiences, I want to speak up for the paper straw.

It is understood that the paper straw on the market is made of 3~5 layers of cross-wound paper core rolled together, and then bonded with glue. At present, there is no national and industrial standard for paper straws in China, and most of the standards used in the market are group standards or enterprise standards. In the standard, the physical and chemical indexes, microbial indexes, physical and mechanical properties of paper straw raw materials are required.

Among them, the most relevant to consumers’ experience of drinking milk tea should be the swelling resistance. The so-called swelling resistance, is the resistance to bubbles, the China Light Industry Association issued the “food contact disposable paper straw” standard provisions are so said, “the paper straw dipped in 100ml 45℃ distilled water, and in 45℃ oven standing for 3h, straw paper can not be separated and can not be used normally inhaling drink phenomenon.” Another group standard makes similar requirements.

In other words, the threshold is set at 45 ° C, which is obviously much lower than the temperature of the hot drinks we buy, so it is not surprising that paper straws are not bubbleable in actual use. Also due to many problems of paper straws, at present, many beverage brands have upgraded paper straws to PLA straws, and the current data shows that PLA straws are superior to paper straws in many aspects. Is there really no future for paper straws?

Of course not, although the current paper straws sacrifice the experience of many milk tea lovers, in terms of environmental protection, paper straws are still relatively environmentally friendly, and the current paper straws can only be regarded as the initial generation of products, driven by the development of technology, I believe there will be better experience of paper straws products launched, will we still laugh at paper straws?