The bill would preempt local governments from enacting single-use plastic bans without adding environmental requirements for ...

The measure (SB 958​), sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R- Fleming Island, says it is intended to "combat the harmful ...

A TikTok went viral after a woman said she ingested glass from her reusable glass straw — not seeing anything was amiss until ...

If you're like me and ditched plastic for glass to save the planet, you might want to pause before your next sip. A viral ...

McDonald's introduced paper straws in all of its 1,361 McDonald's restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland last year.

If you’ve ever taken a sip only to end up chewing on a soggy paper straw, you’re not alone — and Florida lawmakers are taking ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

A year-old company called EQUO is out with its first line of products: Drinking straws made from grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. And you can smell the ingredients and eat the rice straws: ...

Darryl Sellwood needs to use plastic straws to drink due to his physical disability. Kate Anderson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

The law in Washington is that food service businesses can only give you a single-use straw if you request one. It's a ...

If, like me, you’ve been trying to be more environmentally conscious, you know that cutting back on single-use plastics (or not using them at all) is a good place to start. Maybe that means bringing ...