You don’t have to ban all straws—how about trading your plastic straws for this stainless steel set? The straws can be used—and reused!—for cold drinks in your tumbler, drinking glass or travel mug.

Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System will eliminate plastic straws and reduce single-use plastic items in public areas as part of a push toward environmental sustainability. 1. Across its ...

Ah, the not-so-fondly remembered summer holiday car journeys, cramped in the back seat among wet towels, rotting apple cores, ice lolly sticks and sand scattered over all conceivable surfaces. Except ...

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 the ...

An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide hasn’t gotten the same attention. By Hiroko Tabuchi The 36 ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order reversing a Biden administration policy to replace plastic straws with paper. The executive order would roll back the earlier order of Biden ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to end the ...