“Plastic is not part of our diet for a reason,” Leffel said. “No straws [would] be a better solution, because reducing waste is what we want to do.” On average, it takes 200 years for a plastic straw ...

Trump signed an executive order this week in favor of plastic straws over paper ones. As the debate rages on, here’s why you really don’t need straws.

by mosquitoes drinking blood or by humans drinking through a straw. Often, animals employ one approach or the other. Hummingbirds are a rare example of using both. "It makes sense that they would ...