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by brnt 1034 days ago
Which brands? Cant get at the supplementary materials.

I bought a set of those IKEA bamboo straws, said to be 100% natural, and indeed I don't see why pfas would be needed on those; solid bamboo.
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teekert 1034 days ago
Bamboo also has its issues [0]. I think mainly because it is kept in shape by bad stuff. Could be that your straws are really 100% bamboo, but some products are something like ground bamboo in some polymer.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-00064...

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brnt 1034 days ago
The ones I have are just drilled out bamboo sticks (they vary in size and have visible bamboo structure), not reconstituted. I've never seen other types of bamboo straws (everything appears to be paper around here, once I had a pasta-straw), so I'm really curious.
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