President Donald Trump’s Executive Order against paper straws that was signed in February is already beginning to “use all levers available" to cut back on them.

Every year, over 400 million tonnes of plastic are produced. About five percent of that ends up in rivers and eventually the ...

This company says its straws are a big upgrade from soggy paper straws without the environmental impacts of regular plastic.

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Plastic straws, once public enemy No. 1, are back in the government’s good graces. The news is hard to swallow for paper ...

Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make drinkers happy, there are many alternatives to returning to ...

Paper straws are out at the Department of Justice. Also banned: Dijon mustard, flimsy paper napkins, and the word ...

with many companies and people choosing to ditch plastic straws in favour of paper ones. But are paper straws really the eco-friendly alternative they claim to be? Chung Shan-shan, the director of ...

Plastic straws are making a comeback. Karrie Laughton has two words for them: Suck it. The co-owner of paper-straw company Roc Paper Straws put the phrase on a sipper she designed last month ...