Der „grünste“ Trinkstroh wird aus Methan hergestellt, schließen die Forscher schließen
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/22/most-eco-friendly-straw-research/
Der „grünste“ Trinkstroh wird aus Methan hergestellt, schließen die Forscher schließen
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/22/most-eco-friendly-straw-research/
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Note that this is specifically about disposable straws; silicone and metal straws weren’t studied.
„The methane-derived straw also biodegraded more rapidly than many other straws in the testing phase at WHOI’s Environmental Systems Laboratory on Cape Cod.“
Biodegrading rapidly is not „green“ on a planet with too much carbon in the air. It is better for carbon to remain sequestered in a non-biodegradable state.
I used a straw made of actual straw once. As in hollow grass.
Worked much better than a paper straw.
We don’t need a high tech solution.
This is all going the way of cryptocurrency. They’re really pushing a fartstraw? What next, dogestraw? The greenest straw is drinking out of a cup like an adult, eliminating the need for disposable junk entirely.
So plastic straws are back on the menu. And they’re calling it biodegrading but it really means the methane sourced polymer is just turning into microplastics.
This doesn’t even make sense.
Introducing the Fart Straw
Drink it deep.
You can just not use straws (unless you have tremors or something similar). That’s greener than any straw.
Isn’t methane the active ingredient in farts? If so, using a methane straw would mean sucking farts
I worked for a company awhile back that was trying to industrialize methane to plastic as a side project but it wasn’t remotely scalable then.
Sucking my drink through farts?
They didn’t mention what polymer they turned the methane into. If we’re talking about a highly water soluble polymer, then I’ll assume PVA. The process of converting methane to PVA already exists at the industrial scale, so that’s not a massive announcement.
Honestly the bigger note from this should be whether or not they’ve found a reliable, low energy way to capture methane. But from the article, it looks like they’re just capturing it at landfills. Which is certainly better than releasing it into the air, but it would be so small scale that it could never keep up with demand without atmospheric capture.