After McDonald's and ikea, starbucks announced on July 9 that it would eliminate disposable plastic straws in 28, 000 stores worldwide by 2020.

Starbucks will use a new polypropylene lid instead of a plastic straw, which is designed with an opening and suction nozzle for drinking. Compared with plastic straw, the new lid is large, easy to sort and easy to recycle. The company expects to reduce the consumption of more than 1 billion straws a year.

Look, it looks like this:

As soon as the news came out, netizens were also full of imagination

Cool: what's the alternative? Use green Onions. Or hollow? Cabbage?

Lin daiyu: you can make that kind of edible straw.

More than the spirit of refreshing: how about lipstick???

Ian_Kuo: isn't the cup and lid all plastic? It is recommended to be crisp

Sell - woman - dress small fish - : the ability is bigger, the responsibility is bigger, the great enterprise is always in front

Deep blue light ink xun: support, long time ago saw a straw into the turtle's nose video, pulled out is all blood, it is imperative to ban plastic straw!

In may this year, the European commission proposed the "plastic limit" scheme, cutlery, straws, lunch boxes, drink a cup of household plastic products, such as may soon in the European Union banned or restricted use.

Under the plan, eu countries must reduce the use of plastic food containers and drinks cups by setting reduction targets, offering alternatives or banning free supplies. Eu member states need to meet the target of recycling 90 per cent of beverage bottles by 2025.

The package now needs approval from the European parliament and the European council.

Plastic straw consumers are responding

McDonald's then voted at its annual investors' meeting on whether to phase out plastic straws in its meals. In June, McDonald's announced it would replace all plastic straws with paper ones at its UK and Irish stores from September.

Subsequently, ikea said it would phase out all its stores' disposable plastic products by 2020.

Ikea's plastic straw

Ikea is selling disposable plastic straw

In addition, the Coca-Cola announced in 2030 hundred recycling the packaging, an Amcor, unilever, Pepsi, packaging company commitment to 2025 years ago to 100% using reusable, recyclable or biodegradable packaging...