Posted on 02/14/2021 10:08:24 AM PST by Kaslin
Have you been unfortunate fortunate enough to try a paper straw?
Being on the West Coast, I’ve had the pleasure.
Many, many times.
For those of you yet to partake, you’ll love it — assuming you have the digestive system of a goat.
As for function, the straw pulls double duty.
For the first 4 minutes, it allows you to swallow liquid.
At 4:01 and beyond — in my experience — it feeds you a paper stick.
MMMmmmMMM good.
Apropos, Coca-Cola’s about to try a paper bottle.
From The Daily Wire:
Coca-Cola plans to do a test-run of 2,000 paper bottles this summer to see how they perform in the marketplace and with consumers. The prototype was made “by a Danish company from an extra-long paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner.” It is a first step in a long-term project of completely ridding plastic from the company’s drink containers.
Per the British Broadcasting Company, the mission “is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated drinks.”
And here’s a trick: “The barrier must…ensure no [fibers] flake off into the liquid.”
Because:
[Failure would risk] altering the taste of the drink — or potentially fall foul of health and safety checks.
As worded by the BBC, America’s favorite soft drink aims to produce “zero waste by 2030.”
Clearly, it’s impossible to produce no waste. But Coke has reason to turn a new leaf: Last year, charity organization Break Free From Plastic deemed it the world’s number one plastic polluter.
In service to a transformation, the Danish enterprise — Paper Bottle Company, or Paboco — has accomplished quite a feat — the biodegradable container had to be moldable to various shapes as well as take inked labels.
More from BBC:
After more than seven years of lab work, the firm is now ready to host a trial in Hungary this summer of Coca-Cola’s fruit drink Adez. Initially, this will involve 2,000 bottles distributed via a local retail chain.
And they’re not just doing it for Coke:
Absolut, the vodka-maker, is due to test 2,000 paper bottles of it own in the UK and Sweden of its pre-mixed, carbonated raspberry drink. And beer company Carlsberg is also building prototypes of a paper beer bottle.
So how do you make curved paper pass muster?
Michael Michelsen, the firm’s commercial manager, says the bottles are formed out of a single piece of paper-fibre-based material to give them strength.“That’s part of the secret really,” he explained, adding that [molding] a single object – rather than relying on joins – ensured the bonds between the fibres stayed robust.
“With a clever combination of product design and the strong [fiber] blend, that’s what makes it really possible to not break under pressure.”
In theory, it’s been sufficiently engineered.
However — as noted by Michael — they won’t know for sure ’til taking a real-world shot.
Would you buy a soft drink contained in curved paper?
You may soon get your chance.
When the time comes, a word of advice: Don’t use a paper straw.
It’s the shipping cost...
Can’t get enough fiber these days,, a little fiber with your drink never hurt.
Wait a minute. The fizz from a serving of Coca-Cola is - gasp! - escaping carbon dioxide! So just opening a Coca-Cola is destroying the planet.
If Coca-Cola really wanted to save Mother Earth, they’d quit their virtue-signaling and shut down all their factories. And they could plant daffodils in the lots where their workers once parked their cars.
(Hmm...that’s a pretty good analysis on my part. Maybe I should start a consulting agency.)
Unless if you maintained a supply of empty BEER bottles in your car. What would the LEFT wing of police do?
Tenderly, very very tenderly
Coat it with glass.
I thought recycling was supposed to remedy this. Where do the unclaimed deposits go? Does that have something to do with the law?
Tax
It has a clear plastic liner.
Very small rocks?...
Remember the disasterous “new Coke” innovation.The company took a hit and had to backtrack. Now a “paper bottle” innovation. Its true that companies even with successful products need to constantly innovate. However when the innovation or change is Wok inspired, look for a bad product and some bad losses.
I have no idea, I buy Milk in plastic bottles.
Right now, the most plastic sea pollution comes from the masks! They should be banned!
People are the major Earth destroyer anyway. If few die, that would help the Earth!
Save the Earth, ban the masks!
Anyway, paper does not decay in landfill too well and in its way, it generates a lot of methane.
I do remember real straws.
We recycle plastic bottles. No need for paper ones. When we recycle we dump them in our dug out little dump and then burn the dump off a couple of times per year. We recycle/release those surviving carbon atoms back to the atmosphere where they can be reused.....
wonder what happens if it’s shaken in transit...
Apparently, cutting down the trees that breath in CO2 will save the planet... Brilliant idea.
A local quick service burger place did a remodel and went woke and bought paper straws. That lasted about 2 weeks before they switched back to plastic.
Unless you drank you entire fountain beverage in basically 3-4 minutes with no breaks to eat the straw went limp and began to collapse. Who would have guessed paper and liquids don’t mix?
I remember getting Root Beer from A&W in a milk carton thing , there was a staple closing it and it was almost flat when I got home
The weight of the glass bottle means more fuel is needed to deliver the product.
Why not an aluminum can is the. Etter question.
Good point. Wax paper packages may work for milk or juice, but I don;t see how it can hold up to carbonation and the major difference, lots of opening and closing by the user.
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