However, were their replacement, those paper straws, actually effective? If it weren't for the environment, few people would ...

The packaging major is collaborating with a synchrotron radiation laboratory to conduct experiments on paper straws, determining how materials respond to different environmental factors, explains ...

The bill would preempt local governments from enacting single-use plastic bans without adding environmental requirements for ...

Environmentalists condemned the straw order. "People hate seeing plastic pollution hurt wildlife and trash the environment," said David Derrick of the Center for Biological Diversity. (Calla Kessler / ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Packaging leader DS Smith is pushing ahead in exploring outside-the-box options, testing materials typically seen in gardens, parks and beaches. In doing so, the company is ...

Paper straws are displayed at the Bar & Restaurant Expo and World Tea Expo in Las Vegas on March 29, 2023. - David Becker/Getty Images Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, ...

Trump signed an executive order to review federal policies restricting plastic straws, targeting the Biden administration’s policy to phase out single-use plastics. Trump criticizes paper straws, ...

Sun-Rype Products, a division of Canada-based A. Lassonde Inc., has announced it has replaced plastic straws with paper straws in all SunRype 200 milliliter (ml) single-serve beverage boxes in Canada.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Monday he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very long. Instead he wants the government to exclusively move ...

The epiphany came when a certain coffee chain started replacing plastic straws with paper ones. Despite increasingly dire warnings about Texas-size islands of plastic in the world’s oceans, the sudden ...

New York (CNN) — Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, ...