plastic straw
Bendable drink tube
A plastic straw is a disposable drinking tube made of plastic, used to sip beverages.
Once ubiquitous at restaurants and fast-food chains, plastic straws became a symbol of single-use plastic waste in the 2010s, prompting bans and a shift toward paper or metal alternatives: They don't give you plastic straws anymore unless you ask.
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
- sippingDrinking in small mouthfuls
- bendyEasily flexed or curved
- disposableMade for one use
- single-useFor one application only
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- disposable tablewarepaper cup, foam cup, paper plate, paper bowl, paper napkin
- straws
- throwaway thingstrash, junk, garbage, waste, discard
- plastic tablewarespork
- plasticspolymers, polymer, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene
- Delicate Thingsbutterfly wing, spider web, bubble, soap bubble, eggshell
material composition
plastic strawreusable straw
Washable beverage tube
paper straw · metal straw · bamboo straw · glass straw · wheat straw
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