An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap ...

Bendable straws When bendable straws were first made in the 1940s, they were a boon in health-care settings to help patients drink without sitting up. Plastic bendable straws have become the safe ...

Marriott hotels to eliminate plastic straws by 2019 Marriott International plans to remove plastic straws and drink stirrers from all of its 6,500 hotels and resorts worldwide by next year.

Businesses and the public should continue making responsible choices that benefit human health long term and stick with paper ...

A check found plastic straws being given out at most of the drink stalls, with one operator quickly switching to a paper straw when approached about the matter. Hawkers cited reasons such as ...

The study concludes that bamboo drinking straws offer a sustainable and practical solution to plastic pollution, with the potential to replace traditional plastic straws on a large scale.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson said plastic straws allowed many disabled people to drink independently and said paper or glass alternatives were not always suitable or safe. A growing number of ...

It was a stark reversal from the Biden era, in which the former president vowed to remove plastic straws and single-use plastics from federal food service in favor of paper straws, which are ...