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    Plastic, Paper, or Plants: Choose Your Straw

    Feb 01, 2020 1 minute
    by Marcia Amidon Lusted

    Plastic straws are a modern invention, although people have been using different types of cylinders for sucking up liquids—like hollow grasses or thin tubes of metal—for centuries. Paper straws came first, then straws that could

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