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Should You Ditch Your Eco-Friendly Drinking Straw?

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About a year ago, a team of scientists from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, went shopping for drinking straws. They bought a heap of paper and plastic ones. They bought a few made from bamboo. And they also purchased some crafted from glass and stainless steel. In all they collected 39 different brands of straws.

But when they came back to the lab, they did not use these straws for sipping or slurping. They destroyed

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