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January 11, 2022

Welcome to the Cool Club.....

NSW Announces going Single Use Plastic Free in June 2022! Find out what SUP's (Single Use Plastics) will be banned from June this year. Including being the first state to ban microbeads... Welcome to NSW peeps and here are the range of Single Use Alternatives you can use available for businesses as well as you, the end user!

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Cleaning your Reusable Straw (at home, out & about and for cafe's)

All the ways we can think of to clean our SUCKITUPstraws. How to clean metal, silicone, glass straws at home or on the move with our very popular travel straws.

We also show our straw cleaning rack for hospitality businesses so that they can serve reusable straws instead of crappy paper or shitty plastic straws. By using our rack cafes and restaurants can remove over 35,000 single use straws from cycle. As well as lessening the impact on mother nature we help businesses save over $4000 a year on expendables!

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April 5, 2021

STRAWS, STRAWS, STRAWS What the Actual Straw

Straws, Straws, Straws – who knew 5 years ago these things used to aid drinking would be the talk of the town. The 15^th most googled product in 2020 and a part of $75 Million Dollar industry? The world has gone straw crazy, obviously we have. We started a business in providing access to affordable and stylish straws two years ago after a career in the military, it wasn’t a natural progression ladder I promise you 😊! Glass Straws, Silicone Straws, Metal Straws, Bamboo Straws, Grass Straws all the freakin straws!

SUCKITUPstraws Retail Opportunities & Partner Cafes

I know Covid stuffed up a lot of thigs for everyone, a lot of businesses crumbled BUT a lot succeeded and found new innovative ways to sell their products or services. We firstly thought we were done as we were predominantly selling reusable straws to the hospitality industry (specifically establishments that offered dine in service). But Thanks to Covid, SUCKITUPstraws learnt how to pivot. We found a gap in the market and we needed to be more than just online and local markets we needed to be in retail – brick and mortar stores. We needed to be by our impulse buyers, so we put our retail straws where customers actually needed them in stores, gift stores, florists’ cafes and some restaurants etc.

Are you up on the play of Biodegradable Plastic Straws?

Biodegradable Plastic Straws We’ve talked bans, we’ve talked bad plastic, and how it takes like a million years for one straw to decompose right? So, what about the murky areas of biodegradable “plastic straws” do they Biodegrade properly, How long does it take? Is there a button I press to make them biodegrade? And this plastic is allowed, right? With our limited research that we were able to conduct due to there not being any black and white answers, this is what we were able to find. I think what has happened to be perfectly honest with you is the...

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