LOLISTRAW is made from LOLIWARE’s patent-pending, seaweed-based material technology and is 100% PLASTIC-FREE, Hypercompostable, marine-degradable, and non-GMO.

Seaweed is a renewable resource that does not require land resources and actually absorbs CO2, which is why a seaweed-based product has an environmental advantage. Many bioplastics are made from GMO crops like corn.

 Our goal is to replace the 500 million plastic straws that are used and discarded every day in the United States alone.

8MM tons of single-use plastics, including plastic straws, enter our oceans each year.

LOLISTRAW is a sustainable (and FUN!) alternative to plastic straws that cannot be captured by recycling waste streams.

 From STRAW TO SOIL in 60 days or less.

LOLISTRAW creates new value after it is used in 3 key ways –– by transforming into plant fuel through composting, machine fuel through anaerobic digestion, or human fuel through eating :P

We have designed LOLISTRAW to have the same functionality expected of a plastic straw.LOLISTRAW will last for up to 24 hrs in a beverage and will have a shelf life of up to 24 months.

PRE-ORDER $25+ in LOLISTRAWS and you’ll get to vote on your favorite to decide the very first flavor launch of #thestrawofthefuture

CITRUS | bright lemon squeeze

VANILLA DUST | fragrant sweetness

ROSE QUARTZ | powered by flowers

HELIOTROPE | +embedded with sun energy

SPARKLING OCEAN | dedicated to our mission of creating sparkling oceans again

CARBON | activated with coconut charcoal for detox

AIR | disappears like air | 1:1 hypercompostable replacement for plastic straws

LOLIWARE on Shark Tank! 

LOLIWARE has coined the term "Hypercompostable" to convey that all of our products, including LOLISTRAW, will break down at the same rate as food waste in compost or in the natural environment, such as a waterway.

Our goal is to replace plastic straws used at high-waste venues, such as stadiums, fast casual restaurants, and of course – coffee shops!

Partner with us to say goodbye plastic straws and hello to LOLISTRAW! 

We have our team of experts ready to go! Founders Leigh Ann and Chelsea are industrial designers, we have two senior food scientists, a process engineer, operations advisors, and sustainability experts supporting our endeavor.

Risks and challenges

Manufacturing – This product is unique from a production perspective, so while we anticipate challenges, we have the right team in place to troubleshoot and problem solve along the way. Our team includes scientists, engineers, as well as operations experts and industry advisors.

Shipping in Summer 2018 – We plan to iterate, review samples and do quality control in March/April 2018 and place the manufacturing order by May 2018. We estimate shipping will begin in August 2018 …. Just in time for the dog days of summer! We don't anticipate any issues with this timeline. However, if by chance anything unexpected happens, we promise to keep you informed, both during the campaign and afterward.

ABOUT LOLIWARE

LOLIWARE is the world’s first edible bioplastics company dedicated to replacing plastic with hypercompostable, edible materials derived from seaweed.

With the launch of LOLIWARE’S new innovation: LOLISTRAW, the world’s first hypercompostable, edible drinking straw, the company is poised to compete with Bio-based plastics that break down in the organics bin alongside food waste in 60 days or less.

“Single-use plastics should never be ‘built to last,’ they should be ‘designed to disappear’.” – Chelsea Briganti, LOLIWARE Co-Founder

Chelsea Briganti and Leigh Ann Tucker set out to change the world of sustainable product design when they co-founded LOLIWARE in 2014. Prior to launching LOLIWARE, the duo designed breakthrough innovations for global CPG companies. This experience led them to question the concept that all products should be ‘built to last’ and the status quo of manufacturing single-use items to last well beyond their useful life. As a result, LOLIWARE has developed sustainable solutions which are leading product design for single-use disposable items away from the ‘built to last’ philosophy and towards a new philosophy of ‘designed to disappear’.

“Our world needs a radically new approach to our daily consumption of single-use plastics which too often go to landfill or pollute oceans. Our solutions transform disposables into ‘'plant fuel' through composting, or ‘human fuel’ through consumption." – Leigh Ann Tucker, LOLIWARE Co-Founder

LOLIWARE has been featured in publications including Entrepreneur Magazine, WIRED, Popular Science, NYT, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, FastCo., & Oprah. In 2015, TIME magazine nominated LOLIWARE as one of the best scientific inventions of the year.

The company’s investors include Closed Loop Ventures, Mark Cuban Companies (after appearing on ABC’s Shark Tank), and the New York State Innovation Venture Fund. Furthermore, the company has partnerships with IDEO, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, The Last Plastic Straw, Plastic Pollution Coalition & The Lonely Whale Foundation.

The team recently announced their plan to replace one billion plastic disposables by 2020. LOLISTRAW, the #zerowastestraw of the future, will be a critical solution as the world seeks interventions to address the rapidly accelerating global plastic crisis.

LOLIWARE believes products should be DESIGNED TO DISAPPEAR if they are to exist at all & aspires to reintroduce sustainability as fun-forward & ripe with experiential possibilities.