The material for the bamboo drinking straws is made by harvesting 100% natural bamboo fibre. Bamboo is a very eco-friendly material since it grows extremely fast and doesn't require additional irrigation or use of pesticides. There are 185,00 hectares of fast-growing bamboo in Taiwan. Just 11,000 hectares would cover the annual worldwide demand of 600 billion, yes billion, straws. The harvested fibre is shredded, dried and ground up into a powder. This powder is blended with natural starchs from agricultural waste streams and pressed into pellets. From these pellets, the straws are formed into a tube through injection moulding. The tube is then cut to measure at the desired length. The production process happens at relatively low temperatures, ensuring low carbon emmissions, and without producing any form of water pollution. These all natural bamboo drinking straws are of course (industrially) compostable, and even biodegradable under natural conditions and this within a few months.