When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ineffective and "disgustingly dissolves in your mouth," he was widely criticized for ...

It’s not that hard to do.” Several states and cities have banned plastic straws and some restaurants no longer automatically give them to customers. President Joe Biden administration’s had ...

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.

But how did straws become a symbol of the global crusade ... “It’s like trying to laugh while regurgitating a piece of hard spaghetti, and it ends up stuck in your nose.” ...

The president claimed plastic straws won’t “affect a shark very much.” But he’d previously declared, “I hope all the sharks die.” ...

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 ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over single-use plastics.