{"id":165785,"date":"2023-06-14T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/professor-makes-100-biodegradable-straws-using-coconut-leaves-has-sold-20-million"},"modified":"2023-06-14T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T02:24:23","slug":"professor-makes-100-biodegradable-straws-using-coconut-leaves-has-sold-20-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/professor-makes-100-biodegradable-straws-using-coconut-leaves-has-sold-20-million","title":{"rendered":"Professor Makes 100% Biodegradable Straws Using Coconut Leaves, Has Sold 20 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/professor-makes-100-biodegradable-straws-using-coconut-leaves-has-sold-20-million2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bengaluru-based Professor Saji Varghese founded a startup called Sunbird Straws, which sells eco-friendly straws made from coconut leaves. So far, the company has sold over 20 million pieces worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based Professor Saji Varghese founded a startup called Sunbird Straws, which sells eco-friendly straws made from coconut leaves. So far, the company has sold over 20 million pieces worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}