The food and beverage industry uses innumerable plastic stirrers every day, resulting in lots of plastic waste, although some businesses have switched to wooden stirrers. SOILABLE paper stirrer-straws are the first stirrers made of paper that can be used to both stir and sip (e.g., warm coffee and tea); they are compostable and can be recycled to produce other paper products. This a far superior alternative to wooden stirrers that can't be used to drink and are not recyclable. SOILABLE paper stirrer-straws help us all to reduce plastic waste.