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Environmentally Friendly Glue-free Paper Straws Made of rePAPER’s REPA COAT

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  A giant waste land floating in Pacific ocean called GPGP(Great Pacific Garbage Patch) discovered in 1997 by a yacht player put the world in shock. Spotted the marine creatures suffering from the waste flown into the ocean, it became a wake-up call for the generation. 2020 as a starting point, a ‘Plastic-free Movement’ occurred in every country and industry. Green marketing and practices have been the main issues; hotels replace their amenities to bulk dispensers and encourage their customers to use reusable cups. The fashion industries produce items made of recycled materials.   The food packaging industry also actively started developing and applying environmentally friendly packaging that are recyclable and compostable instead of conventional plastics. The painful video clip of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril in Costa Rica triggered the plastic-free movement around the world and a plastic straw became the first target to be eliminated. For the busine...