The oldest “straw” that can be traced back to now is a mural from Sumerians around 3000 BC. It shows that nobles would drink beer with long strips at that time. Later, a gold pipe studded with sapphire was found in the tomb. Historian I believe this is the earliest straw in history.

In the East, it is recorded in the historical records of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The ancients used the stems of plants to drink alcohol. In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu had a poem: “The yellow sheep is not mutated, but the reed is still drunk. The so-called reed wine refers to wine sipped with a reed tube; Song Ren Zhuang Chuo’s “Chicken Rib Bian” says: “Put it on the right side, and the barbarian will squeeze the wine in a bottle.” Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty, “Art Forest Cutting” “Mountain” wrote: “Reed wine uses reed as a tube, suck and drink it.”

Regarding the mass-manufactured straws, it is the more well-known Marvin Stone, who invented the paper straws in 1888 and registered the copyright, mainly to solve the shortcomings of ryegrass straws that are not durable, prone to scum, and affect the taste and taste. , Just wrap the pencil with paper, fix the paper roll with glue, and finally pull out the pencil to make a paper straw. At that time, it was a star product that dazzled the United States.

Plastic straws became popular after the Second World War. Due to the relatively cheap raw materials and cost, with the evolution of social patterns (such as restaurants, cafes, movie theaters, etc.) and the development of film sealing machines for beverage cups, plastic straws became the best in the straw industry. The new darling, the paper straw is fading.

It was not until 2015 that biologist Nathan J. Robinson published a video about removing foreign objects from the nostrils of sea turtles and discovering that the foreign objects were plastic straws, which spurred countries around the world to pay attention to the impact of marine plastic pollution on the environment, and it began to appear. Various laws that “prohibit” or “restrict” the use of plastic straws, followed by various alternatives to plastic straws have been introduced.