LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Friday which will ban all restaurants in L.A. from offering disposable plastic straws to their customers unless ...

The bioplastic is more durable than paper straws—but bioplastics aren't necessarily the way to combat our waste problem. Reading time 2 minutes As the war on plastic straws rages on, researchers in ...

If you're picking up a coffee or smoothie in New Jersey, you're now going to have to ask for a straw. The state imposed a new restriction on single-use plastic straws Thursday, which is part of an ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became the ...

Swapping plastic straws for alternatives is a sustainable change everyone can make. Insider tested five plastic straw alternatives in coffee and water to find which one worked best. This article is ...

Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, which buys more ...