Plastic straws are often replaced by paper straws, which are nonfunctional, use chemicals that may carry risks to human health, are more expensive to produce than plastic straw ...

Businesses here can give out plastic straws again after the commission repealed a four-year ... except for a very small ...

The strategy would aim to eliminate all executive branch policies “designed to disfavor plastic straws” and address the federal government’s contracts with states and and other entities ...

Now, the environmental commission is working on an amendment to require single use foodware be compostable or reusable. Even ...

It's not that hard to do." Several states and cities banned plastic straws and some restaurants no longer automatically give them to customers. Democratic President Joe Biden's administration ...

The current administration continues to senselessly undermine efforts to reduce single-use plastics. But plastic never was and never will be disposable, and neither are the people it poisons. Plastic ...

A recent executive order from President Donald Trump reverses the push for paper straws in favor of plastic ones based on the claim that paper straws don’t work, which isn’t true. But the EO ...

Plastic straws have become emblematic of a global pollution ... found the study. While no alternative is perfect, single-use plastic is still the worst option, said Kachef, adding the type of ...

It is important to note that both the EU and U.K. bans on plastic straws included stirrers and cotton bud sticks. However their removal from the market caused little to no controversy, mostly ...

“Unless you are getting rid of single-use items in natural places filled with wildlife, swapping plastic straws for paper straws will make no difference in a city like Hong Kong,” Chung adde ...

She decided there and then to stop using plastic straws provided during lunch at ... her face with her hair while gulping the beverage. No one joined her. Harasawa picked up books on ...

“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 ...