According to The Journal, the crusade against plastic began a decade ago when a viral video showed a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose. Shortly after, cities began to reduce the use of plastic ...

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

Sea turtle biologist and New York University Professor Genia Naro-Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make ...

Businesses say ban pushed by CT legislators would be costly and alternative materials aren’t readily available.

US tech supremos have aligned themselves with the US president. Mike Cannon-Brookes meanwhile says he’s steadfast.

In a society where waste is so pervasive, the current ingestion of microplastics should be treated as a health crisis ...

A St. Petersburg City Council member’s request to discuss lifting a municipal ban on plastic straws sparked multiple heated ...

Critics claim this is an attack on agencies, but they miss a fundamental point: The president’s foremost obligation is to the ...

When US President Donald Trump vowed to end the "ridiculous situation" of paper straws with an executive order recently, he noted that he had used "them many times, and on occasion, they break, they ...

“Plastic is not part of our diet for a reason,” Leffel said. “No straws [would] be a better solution, because reducing waste ...