I love a straw. If I’m drinking any iced beverage at home — iced coffee, iced tea, iced water — I’m going to use a straw because, in my mind, it makes everything taste better. But most straws are ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became ...

President Donald Trump's waded into the contentious debate over paper versus plastic straws with an executive order Monday favoring the plastic variety. The president ordered federal agency and ...

During his 2020 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump’s team devised a clever scheme to tap into the public’s shared negative sentiment over the ban, selling Trump branded nine-inch long plastic straws.

From seaweed to sugarcane, companies race to find the next great plastic replacement Small businesses are scrambling to meet the demand from consumers who want an alternative to plastic straws.

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

President Donald Trump has returned to his long-held disdain for paper straws, and says he will upend Joe Biden’s effort to curtail single-use plastic versions in a new executive order next week.

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As the debate over plastic straws roars back to life amid President Donald Trump’s efforts to end a Biden-era phaseout of the ubiquitous drinking utensil, some may wonder: Do you even need to be ...

"I will be signing an Executive Order ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws" Democrat Biden had announced a target to eliminate single-used plastic utensils like drinking straws by ...