Leonard: I think straws are a bit of a poster child here for the bigger question of society's kind of over-reliance on single-use plastics and the fact that a lot of the stuff is ending up in our ...

But are paper straws really the eco-friendly alternative ... this means that so-called biodegradable materials could be around for a lot longer than 180 days and, even then, they don’t disappear ...

Annually, humans produce an estimated 380 million tons of plastic waste, including 43 million tons of single-use items, such as straws. A lot of that ends up polluting the environment. According ...