Our PLA cornstarch straws look and feel just like plastic straws but are a bioplastic made from corn starch and are 100% compostable. Upgrade your straw game by ditching the single-use plastics and show your customers you care about the environment.
PLA forms through the production of lactic acid from glucose from fermentation. Then a polymerization is added to the resulting lactic acid in the second step. The glucose is obtained here by the grinding and subsequent saccharification from plants which contain starch. PLA can be processed in similar plants as PE: injection moulding, deep-draw, sheet blowing. PLA consists of 100 percent renewable raw materials, has a high stiffness factor, is moisture and grease resistant and has a high gloss. The material is transparent, printable, bio-degradable, foodsave but not heat resistant.