Plastic lollipop sticks should be bannd like plastic straws

3 years ago, in 2018, a  Youtube video of a sea turtle' nose hurted by a plastic drinking straw let many people started to take care of plastic polution. From that time, many countries enact regulations for disposable plastic products. Like plastic eating tools, packages and plastic straws, plastic cotton swabs. But plastic lollipop stick didnot include.

According to LMC (Loggerhead Marinelife Center) investigation and count, there are more plastic lollipop sticks than other kinds of plastic eating utensils on beach. Plastic lollipop sticks were three times more than plastic forks, spoons and knives, and nine times more than the number of plastic straws and stirrers collected. Plastic lollipop sticks are different with other plastic items such as drinking straws or coffee stirrers because of there are holes punched in one side of the plastic so that the candy can stay attached to the stick. Plastic lollipop sticks are belong to single-use plastic item, so we should ues less plastic lollipop sticks. Plastic lollipop also poses a severe threat to sea turtles and other marine life when it enters our oceans.

So, use paper lollipop sticks to replace plastic sticks is a good method. Paper sticks have same function like plastic sticks on lollipop. Most important is that paper sticks are biodegradable and vanish in the sea or earth after a couple of weeks. Not like plastic items, breaks down over time into smaller and smaller pieces which many marine creatures mistake for food. At last, micro plastic will come into human body through food chain.

How to produce paper stick for lollipop and cotton swab?

To produce paper sticks for lollipop and cotton swabs/ buds need paper stick making machines. Paper stick making machine is the main part of whole product line. 

If you want to know the process of making paper sticks, you could contact Shantou Jiechi Machienry, who worked in paper stick machine for lollipop and cotton buds for long time.

You could watch the videos on Youtube firstly, to check how paper stick making mahcine work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ0QLGTAZxs