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Roughly 8.5 billion plastic straws are used in the U.K. each year, but as a new ban takes effect next April, that number will shrink to zero. 英国每年大约使用85亿根塑料吸管，但明年四月实施一项新禁令之后，使用吸管的数量就会减少至零。 One startup is hoping to corner the market for alternative straws using an unlikely material: pasta. 一家初创企业希望用一款另类吸管来垄断市场，这种吸管是用一种难以想象的材料——意大利面制成的。 "It ticks all the boxes in terms of functionality as a plastic straw that everyone's been used to growing up," says Maxim Gelmann, founder of Stroodles, the startup. “它就像我们成长过程中习惯使用的那种塑料吸管一样，拥有其全部功能，”Stroodles这家初创企业的总裁马克西姆·格尔曼说道。 | 
