A spokesperson told Newsbeat "the company was previously using 70 million plastic straws a year" and staff were automatically putting them into drinks. Now Wetherspoon's straws are biodegradable ...

A four-year ban on plastic straws in businesses in Stuart is under reconsideration. The existing ordinance restricts the use ...

The main argument for using paper straws instead of plastic ones is that paper is biodegradable. This means that it can naturally be broken down and won’t end up floating in our oceans or being ...

Biodegradable plastics have been around ... Americans toss 500 million plastic straws every day, or about 1.5 per person. 3. Pass up plastic bottles. Invest in a refillable water bottle.

Starbucks Coffee Japan will replace paper straws with biodegradable plastic straws starting this year, following customer complaints. According to Starbucks Coffee Japan on Jan. 8, the new eco ...

MetaCycler BioInnovations combines science and sustainability, creating biodegradable plastics from milk waste to combat ...

The Stuart City Commission voted in favor of lifting a four-year-old ban on plastic straws during a meeting Monday night.

STUART — A four-year-old ban on the commercial use of plastic straws here may be on its way out. Since Jan. 1, 2021, alternative straws, such as paper and bamboo, have been on the menu in Stuart ...

Also, the coating material is made of paper and biodegradable plastic and therefore will decompose and degrade completely, they said. "Turning a plastic straw we often use into a paper straw will ...

Starbucks Japan decided to introduce biodegradable plastic straws instead of paper straws starting this year. This decision follows consumer complaints about the inconvenience of paper straws.

Corn Next believes it has cracked the corn code for more sustainable packaging and aims to scale up. Later this year, it will move to Illinois, closer to where its corn supplier is based.