In a move aimed at cutting down on plastic waste produced by on-campus food vendors, Western university plans to start using paper straws exclusively at its residence and in-house food service vendors ...

GREENWICH — As a ban on plastic bags takes effect next month, environmentalists and policy-makers are turning their attention to use of plastic straws and the damage they can inflict on the ...

Florida has a plastic problem. It’s overwhelming local landfills, clogging our beaches and choking our oceans and waterways. Decades-long state preemption on the regulation of most single-use plastic ...

The bioplastic is more durable than paper straws—but bioplastics aren't necessarily the way to combat our waste problem. Reading time 2 minutes As the war on plastic straws rages on, researchers in ...

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.

Jeanne Cretella is busy, often traveling from one place to another. As the president of an event management company that oversees 14 venues, including several New Jersey restaurants, that’s to be ...