President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized paper straws, highlighting his executive order banning federal use of them as ...

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Forever chemicals "can disrupt hormones in your body and lead to problems, things like increased risk of breast cancer, ...

A plastic straw is displayed in a glass of milk, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Cincinnati. Credit: AP/Joshua A. Bickel ...

Plastic straws are bad for the planet because they "cannot be recycled because of their weight," and thus contribute to the eight million tons of plastic trash that flow every year into the world ...

The plastic straw pushback may be good news for environmentalists, but it doesn’t bode well for Best Diamond Plastics, a 10-year-old, ...

KidsPost Plastic straws are little, but they are part of a huge problem. They’re too small to be recycled, so they end up in the landfill by the millions.

Plastic straw bans are alive and well today, with new proposals still cropping up at the state and city levels. But eliminating plastic straws is no longer the go-to goal of the anti-plastic movement.

A wave of plastic straw bans swept the world in 2018, but experts say it will take much more to slow plastic waste filling oceans and fouling the food chain.

On social media, many people are ecstatic about the crush of cities and businesses pledging to ban plastic straws once and for all. Ever since a video showing a sea turtle with a straw stuck up ...