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?
I’d like to have a metal collapsible straw that I can take with me anywhere and wash after a few uses. The metal it’s made of has to be odorless and flavorless too, because you don’t wanna feel like you’re drinking blood, don’t you?
A stainless steel straw works well for this. I’d recommend against collapsibility though. It really complicated things. Maybe just make it alightly shorter than normal.
Oh well. It’s a nice alternative.