The bioplastic is more durable than paper straws—but bioplastics aren't necessarily the way to combat our waste problem. Reading time 2 minutes As the war on plastic straws rages on, researchers in ...

President Donald Trump is known to drink many Diet Cokes, but one thing you’re not likely to ever see him using again is a paper straw. “We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump announced after ...

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 ...