According to The Journal, the crusade against plastic began a decade ago when a viral video showed a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose. Shortly after, cities began to reduce the use of plastic ...

Plastic straws, once public enemy No. 1, are back in the government’s good graces. The news is hard to swallow for paper ...

The administration undermines efforts to reduce plastics. But plastic never will be disposable, and neither are the people it ...

“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 ...

There has long been a push to stop the use of plastic straws in favor of environmentally friendly alternatives, like paper ...

Now, the environmental commission is working on an amendment to require single use foodware be compostable or reusable. Even ...

The order rolled back a previous policy aiming to phase out single-use plastic items, including straws, in federal operations ...

From plastic straws to wine in Target, here are seven surprising things I've noticed since moving from New York to Charlotte, ...

The US government has scrapped paper straws to go back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted in many countries around the world in the first place? When US President Donald Trump ...

Charleston  entrepreneur Tom Crowley is on a mission to end single-use plastic pollution by convincing businesses to switch ...

Trump rejected paper straws, saying they "don't work" as well as plastic straws. The poor consumer experience of drinking through a soggy straw is one thing, but there are other problems too.