Popular YouTube influencer Trevor Wallace posted a video criticizing Chipotle for sending a soft, white plastic fork with his mobile order instead of their traditional hard, black plastic utensils.

As part of this plan, the White House announced a phase out of ... "The world's on fire and he's worried about plastic forks," Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told the Daily Mail.

Producing a pound of bamboo forks, for example, expends 0.46 kilowatts per hour, whereas making a pound of plastic forks expends 11 kilowatts per hour, according to Goldfarb. (Manufacturing metal ...