{"id":152771,"date":"2024-10-29T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=152771"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:36:53","slug":"first-75-million-drinking-straws-in-the-us-to-be-made-of-compostable-material-from-gaia-biomaterials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/first-75-million-drinking-straws-in-the-us-to-be-made-of-compostable-material-from-gaia-biomaterials\/","title":{"rendered":"First 7,5 million drinking straws in the US to be made of compostable material from Gaia Biomaterials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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American sustainable serviceware producer Evanesce is just about to start producing the first 7.5 million drinking straws made from Biodolomer, a compostable material based on limestone. Biodolomer is developed and manufactured in Sweden by Gaia Biomaterials<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe US market is 500 million straws \u2013 per day, and we offer a material that gives the feeling that customers want. The potential is enormous\u201d, says Gaia Biomaterials CEO Peter Stenstr\u00f6m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe offer a compostable material that gives the customer the experience and feeling they want from a drinking straw. And no taste of paper!\u201d says Peter Stenstr\u00f6m<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The straws will be produced by Evanesce \u2013 a leading force in the American transition away from disposable plastic service ware, focusing on compostable alternatives. At the company\u2019s South Carolina production facility, extensive trials have been conducted with the Swedish limestone-based Biodolomer material. Now, production of the first batch of some 7.5 million straws is about to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0\u201cThere is a strong demand from consumers and brands for affordable, sustainable solutions, says Douglas Horne, CEO of Evanesce<\/strong>.
\u201cOut of the materials we have tested, Biodolomer\u00a0is the only one that has lived up to our quality expectations while also being a competitively priced premium product.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Biodolomer is developed and manufactured by Gaia Bioomaterials in Sweden. It is certified for industrial composting by both BPI in the US and DinCertco in Europe and has received FDA authorization for the safe use of food-contact substances. It leaves no micro plastics during composting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201dWe are convinced that the new straws will make even more companies choose a solution that allows their customers to enjoy their favourite beverages without being left with a bad aftertaste in their mouth; both literally and figuratively\u201d, concludes Peter Stenstr\u00f6m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American sustainable serviceware producer Evanesce is just about to start producing the first 7.5 million drinking straws made from Biodolomer, a compostable material based on limestone. Biodolomer is developed and manufactured in Sweden by Gaia Biomaterials. \u201cThe US market is 500 million straws \u2013 per day, and we offer a material that gives the feeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":152773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Biodolomer is developed and manufactured in Sweden by Gaia Biomaterials","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,5847,10416,13155],"supplier":[2296,2160,25049,13526,2713],"class_list":["post-152771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","tag-circulareconomy","tag-compostable","supplier-biodegradable-products-institute-bpi","supplier-din-certco-gesellschaft-fuer-konformitaetsbewertung","supplier-evanesce","supplier-gaia-biomaterials-ab","supplier-us-food-and-drug-administration-fda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152771"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=152771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}