Plastic straws are often replaced by paper straws, which are nonfunctional, use chemicals that may carry risks to human health, are more expensive to produce than plastic straw ...

More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the U.S ... These microplastics have been found in a wide range of body tissues. Though research is still limited overall, there ...

Businesses here can give out plastic straws again after the commission repealed ... "When you look at the large effect on the world, on climate change ... It may not seem like a lot, but whatever ...

A recent executive order from President Donald Trump reverses the push for paper straws in favor of plastic ones based on the claim that paper straws don’t work, which isn’t true. But the EO ...

The strategy would aim to eliminate all executive branch policies “designed to disfavor plastic straws” and address the federal government’s contracts with states and and other entities ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution ... These microplastics have been found in a wide range of body tissues. Unrecognizable woman showing handful of ...