Sustainable growth: Tien is careful about how he expands the business to ensure harvesting does not exceed the grasses’ natural reproduction rate. — Reuters.
A VIETNAMESE entrepreneur is promoting an environmentally friendly way to sip drinks by using grass stems to make reusable, biodegradable straws.
Tran Minh Tien, 32, runs his company, 3T, from a village deep in the Mekong river delta, west of Ho Chi Minh city, where wild grey sedge grass grows in swampland.
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