Swiss packaging firm Tetra Pak is introducing paper straws for its juice boxes in response to growing concerns over plastic wastes. The Lausanne-based company said April 30 it has been working to ...

Sun-Rype Products, a division of Canada-based A. Lassonde Inc., has announced it has replaced plastic straws with paper straws in all SunRype 200 milliliter (ml) single-serve beverage boxes in Canada.

Some paper and bamboo straws contain so-called "forever chemicals" that could make them a less-than-ideal alternative to plastic, researchers have found. Scientists in Belgium recently tested dozens ...