Swapping plastic straws for alternatives is a sustainable change everyone can make. Insider tested five plastic straw alternatives in coffee and water to find which one worked best. This article is ...

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 ...

Rhode Island senators have voted to weaken a four-year-old ban on disposable plastic straws. The new bill would allow restaurants to offer plastic straws in self-service dispensers. The original law, ...

It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans. The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the stark-white boat deck.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday encouraging both the federal government and American consumers to buy plastic drinking straws — a formal rebuke of former President Joe Biden’s ...

SANTA CRUZ — A straw is not just a straw. According to Jackie Nuñez, it’s a symbol of a world gone blind to plastic. Nuñez is the founder of The Last Plastic Straw, a project dedicated to changing 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 ...