Every day, Americans toss 500 million plastic straws in the trash. That's enough to fill 125 school buses, or circle the ...

The bill would preempt local governments from enacting single-use plastic bans without adding environmental requirements for ...

Carnival cruise guests don't like the edible straws, but what alternatives are available and can guests bring their own?

President Donald Trump is moving to make plastic straws great again. Trump's executive order ending the plastic straw ban could go into effect in 45 days. The reversal would only apply to federal ...

President Donald Trump is making his opinion known regarding the debate between paper and plastic straws. The president signed an executive order on Monday creating a policy aimed at phasing out paper ...

New requirements banning businesses or organizations in Washington, D.C., from providing single-use plastic straws and stirrers when selling food or beverages took effect Jan. 1. The Department of ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

US President Donald Trump is moving to reintroduce plastic straws after a Biden-era plan began the process of phasing them ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Last Straw is a local business seeking to impact single-use plastic pollution. Credit: ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to end the ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President ...