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.

YORK, ME ‒ A local ban on plastic straws, stir sticks, and utensils will take effect May 18, even as an executive order ...

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 ...

As Reason explains, straw bans could end up having a negative impact on disabled people who cannot drink without them. Still, plastic-straw bans are becoming more popular. There are efforts to ban ...

Plastic straws aren’t recyclable—and won’t break ... Turn a regular mouth Mason jar into an adorable on-the-go mug! This cute ...

(Disability rights groups have expressed concerns about the bans, noting that some people need straws to drink safely.) Alternatives to plastic proliferated: stainless steel or glass straws ...

and can bleed from the straw into a drink.” “The irrational campaign against plastic straws has forced Americans to use nonfunctional paper straws,” the White House says on its website. “This ends ...

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 ...

KFC will stop handing out plastic straws and lids at all of its stores in Hong Kong and Macau for dine-in customers starting from Thursday, becoming one of the first major fast-food chains in the ...