After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” straw that he manufactures in Woodstock, Illinois, and sells to more ...

The move towards paper straws was a refreshing direction in environmental preservation, in that it was initiated locally and ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

In response, governments and businesses enacted bans or phased them out, pushing for biodegradable alternatives. The shift gained momentum after a 2015 video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw ...

Although it had begun in 2011 with a 9-year-old in Burlington, Vermont, attention to the issue exploded in 2015 when a YouTube video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose went viral.

In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle’s nose sparked outrage worldwide and countries and cities started banning them, starting with the Pacific Island ...

In this instance, your mouth is overwhelmed by the cold temperature of the shake, slowing down the process of VOCs getting ...

The shift gained momentum after a 2015 video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw lodged in its nose went viral, prompting global outcry. Trump complained recently to reporters in the Oval Office ...