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 ...

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 English loan word “straw” is used in Japanese to refer to the hollow tube that is used to suck a drink through ... pollution produced by plastic litter. A video clip showing a sea turtle ...

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 ...

As part of its efforts to be more eco-friendly, roughly five years ago Starbucks Japan switched from plastic straws to paper ones. However, consumers haven’t been happy with paper straws in general, ...

KFC to ditch plastic straws and drink lids for dine-in customers across HK and Macau “I really want to emphasise that their ability to decompose in landfills is neither an advantage nor a ...

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 ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last straw. She decided there and then to stop using plastic straws provided during lunch ...