[woodpanel]

Now that you're saying it:

20 yrs from now, I can see an greenwashing-ad of artisan/craft macaroni where ecological considerates up-cycle used macaroni-straws exactly this way. They will have counter-cultural names (unless labeling upcycled garbage for what it is becomes counter cultural). There will be media enchantment all the way (until bankruptcy), everybody yearns for a solution to the threat that too much noodles in the ocean pose to fish.

[partiallypro]

I'm sure there will be a government grant for it that fleeces tax payers to fund the research. Then they'll realize that pasta is so fragile when uncooked that everyone's straws are breaking and it's a useless product...but someone will make millions from it.