{"id":89815,"date":"2019-04-22T05:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws"},"modified":"2019-04-22T05:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:02:32","slug":"man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws","title":{"rendered":"Man Makes and Sells Compostable Wild Grass Straws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine being able to use grass instead of plastic for #Straws\u2026Zero Waste Saigon, which also sells the straws, says that finding a human use for the grass, helps preserve wetlands, which provide habitat for Sarus Crane birds, because it prevents them from being turned into crop land.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This man has come up with a super sustainable \u2014 and truly biodegradable \u2014substitute for plastic straws.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws.jpg 300w, https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/E1F04A3F-6902-4CE2-8006-A41AD0DA3931-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/E1F04A3F-6902-4CE2-8006-A41AD0DA3931-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/returntonow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/E1F04A3F-6902-4CE2-8006-A41AD0DA3931.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px)  100vw, 300px\"><\/p>\n<p>As plastic straw bans come into effect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2018\/07\/news-plastic-drinking-straw-history-ban\/\">around the world<\/a>, a Vietnamese man has come up with a creative, natural alternative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/2019\/04\/12\/man-makes-and-sells-compostable-wild-grass-straws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being able to use grass instead of plastic for #Straws\u2026Zero Waste Saigon, which also sells the straws, says that finding a human use for the grass, helps preserve wetlands, which provide habitat for Sarus Crane birds, because it prevents them from being turned into crop land. This man has come up with a super [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89815","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}