The US government is eschewing paper straws and going back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted ... For ...

Responding to the initial public outcry, cities, states and entire corporations, including Starbucks, Royal Caribbean, Disney ...

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The move towards paper straws was a refreshing direction in environmental preservation, in that it was initiated locally and by producers, not through legislation. Donald Trump recently surprised ...

Donald Trump recently surprised the world again by signing an action to end what he describes as the “forced use” of paper straws. Although there is some merit in the argument the White House ...

Paper straw firms, which had expected increased demand for their products after the policy took effect, protested the state’s back-and-forth stance. Starbucks famously banned all plastic straws from ...

Some companies — Alaska Airlines and Starbucks, for example — have ... calling for a “national strategy to end the use of paper straws,” seems to take aim at the suite of local and ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to en ...

A local restaurant supply distributor says he wasn’t surprised when President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal use of paper straws, because in his experience they just aren ...