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 ...

SANTA CRUZ — A straw is not just a straw. According to Jackie Nuñez, it’s a symbol of a world gone blind to plastic. Nuñez is the founder of The Last Plastic Straw, a project dedicated to changing the ...

President Donald Trump is known to drink many Diet Cokes, but one thing you’re not likely to ever see him using again is a paper straw. “We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump announced after ...

I've always loved a good straw, and for most of my life, that has meant loving plastic straws. Cheap, easy and always available, they never let me down. But straws have become a flash point in the ...

Plastic straws, left, sit next to paper straws on display for sale in Cincinnati on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) (AP) — Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about ...

Plastic straws have become a point of contention. Many cities and states have banned them because they end up in landfills, city streets (and sometimes even in sea turtles’ nostrils). But the bans ...

It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans. The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the stark-white boat deck.

"They [are] taking one step at a time I guess." Confounding photo of disposable straw sparks outrage online: 'Virtue ...

See how scientists extracted a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril By Freda Kreier, Correspondent SANTA CRUZ — A straw is not just a straw. According to Jackie Nuñez, it’s a symbol of a world ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President ...