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 ...

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

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 is what we want to do.” On average, it takes 200 years for a plastic straw ...

"If you bring them by the brewery, we’ll take them from you, wash them, and sort through them to make sure they’re really clean…” ...

Donald Trump has signed 89 executive orders in his second term—more than double Biden at the same point in his first term.

Robert F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King to ending the federal procurement of paper straws in favor of plastic ones. The ...

As convenient as they may be, plastic shopping bags are very destructive to the environment and Georgia is looking to solve the problem.

There has long been a push to stop the use of plastic straws in favor of environmentally friendly alternatives, like paper ...