Yes Straws

Company Overview

Our story starts in 2018 when we started to notice various news pieces about how plastic straws were being banned in areas of the United States and countries of the European Union. At first, we had no idea why this was happening, but when we started to read more, what we found was terrible!

Pollution all over the world is getting worse and worse. The oceans and beaches of Earth are covered in waste, and there some heart-wrenching videos showing how animals like sea turtles are dying because of plastic straws getting stuck in their noses. With almost 8.3 billion straws polluting our beaches, it is clear we need to do something.

This is the moment when YesStraws was born. We wanted to find an alternative that would help us avoid many of the problems that are presented by plastic straws. There had to be a better solution and we were going to find it.

 As residents of Eastern Europe, we observed how our local community, which was very agriculturally focused, had tons of extra cane (the stalk of cane plants). The common use was for roofs in the villages, but there wasn't much to do with it aside from that. The stuff was cheap to harvest and grows so fast it is almost impossible to use all of it.