It’s estimated that more than 500 million plastic straws are used per day in the U.S. and much of that waste ends up in the oceans causing harm to sea creatures. In an effort to reduce waste ...

They’re not working too good,” Trump said at a 2020 campaign rally, in large part echoing public sentiment. The Trump Administration branded the campaign against plastic straws “irrational ...

It was a stark reversal from the Biden era, in which the former president vowed to remove plastic ... and these other large brands made their initial commitments to get rid of straws was because ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back ...

Earlier this year, a three-year-old video of researchers extracting a long, twisted tube from a reptile’s bleeding nostril went viral. To date, it has accumulated more than 30 million views and ...

In May 2018 McDonald’s in the UK started phasing out its plastic straws in favour of paper ones ... co-founder at Life without plastic. “In large part the plastics issue is a behavioral ...

The plastic straw banning trend throughout the U.S. has been good news for Lauren Gropper, CEO and co-founder of Repurpose, Inc. “It was fortuitous timing,” says Gropper. “We’re often ...

As Starbucks cuts out plastic ... straws and lids on two separate scales.” His results showed weights of 3.23 grams for the current lid and small straw and 3.55 grams for the current lid and ...

When they removed part of the large object they realised it was in fact a plastic straw. The plastic straw pulled from the turtle's nostril “Is it a f---ing straw? Don’t tell me it’s a straw ...

FILE- A large soft drink with a plastic straw from a McDonald's restaurant is shown in Surfside, Fla., May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) ...