Discover how Bengaluru’s Saji Varghese transforms fallen coconut leaves into 7 lakh eco-friendly straws every month, reducing ...

Discover how Bengaluru’s Saji Varghese transforms fallen coconut leaves into 7 lakh eco-friendly straws every month, reducing plastic waste and empowering rural women ...

Three years later, in 2020, the professor started Sunbird Straws to manufacture drinking straws made from naturally dried coconut leaves. Hub-and-spoke model ...

The entrepreneur’s startup, Evlogia Eco Care, was founded by him in January 2019 and initially, the startup began producing 150 straws out of the coconut leaves on a daily basis. “All the ...

Saji Varghese began experimenting with food-grade adhesives and different crafting techniques. After several months of trials, he succeeded in creating a multi-layered straw in early 2018. The final ...

Manigandan Kumarappan, founder of Evlogia Eco Care, a Bengaluru-based startup is one of them. Established in 2018, it has been at the forefront of producing eco-friendly drinking straws from ...

Drinking straws that are made from materials like paper and bamboo are often promoted as more eco-friendly than their plastic counterparts. However, a new study has found that these supposedly ...

Paper straws, on the other hand, were the most likely to contain PFAS, with 18 out of 20, or 90%, of paper brands testing positive. They were also found in four out of five bamboo straws, three ...