Put some regular paper into water and see how long it lasts. Clearly, paper straws had a bunch of nasty shit in them to prevent the paper from just dissolving.

Put some regular paper into water and see how long it lasts. Clearly, paper straws had a bunch of nasty shit in them to prevent the paper from just dissolving. What did people think?! It’s like how when I was a kid they moved from paper bags to plastic at checkout to “save trees” and now we realize plastic isn’t the perfect material. There will be many more cases of this because there’s no motivation to spend time studying miracle materials, it’s always about immediately finding several ways to extract profit from it in every use case possible.