The US government has scrapped paper straws to go back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted in many ...

The administration undermines efforts to reduce plastics. But plastic never will be disposable, and neither are the people it ...

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ...

“Plastic is not part of our diet for a reason,” Leffel said. “No straws [would] be a better solution, because reducing waste is what we want to do.” On average, it takes 200 years for a plastic straw ...

The common alternative: paper straws. “We’re going back to plastic straws. (Paper straws) don’t work. They break. They explode If something’s hot. They don’t last very long, like a ...

President Donald Trump signed an order this week to phase out paper straws in federal agencies. Will Florida cities be ...

After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” straw that he manufactures in Woodstock, Illinois, and sells to more ...

Straws have emerged as one of the leading contributors to the plastic pollution crisis, frequently appearing on beaches ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last straw. She ...

The move towards paper straws was a refreshing direction in environmental preservation, in that it was initiated locally and by producers, not through legislation.

In 2015, the video of a plastic straw being painfully removed from a turtle's bleeding nostril went viral, spurring a ...

Charleston  entrepreneur Tom Crowley is on a mission to end single-use plastic pollution by convincing businesses to switch ...