Paper Straws. For a disposable straw, paper is your best bet. Plastic straws aren’t recyclable—and won’t break down in a landfill—but paper straws like this are biodegradable.

Transcend supplied U-bend paper straws to Ribena, which, in February 2021, became the first UK-based drinks brand to introduce a paper straw to its drinks cartons. To make this work, they require ...

Corn Next corn straws are a non-toxic, affordable alternative to plastic and paper straws. Made from cornstarch, water, and ...

The red straws labeled with the word Trump were launched as an alternative to "liberal" paper straws. "Liberal paper straws don't work," Trump's site said in 2019. "Stand with President Trump and ...

During his 2020 reelection bid, the Trump campaign sold Trump-branded plastic straws because "liberal paper straws don’t work,” the campaign's online store said at the time. (This story has ...

“The irony is that a lot of the paper straws that were coming on the market, the low-grade ones that I wouldn’t use anyways, they’re full of toxic dyes and glues,” said Nuñez, who is also ...

Plastic straws aren’t recyclable and aren’t biodegradable, like paper straws. They first gained popularity in the 2010s, after a video of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck up its nose gained ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — President Trump issued an executive order on Monday, called Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws, that would put an end to the "irrational campaign" against ...

Paper straws sit on a bar in San Francisco in 2018. President Trump has signed an executive order decrying the "irrational campaign against plastic straws" and directing federal agencies to stop ...

One study out of the University of Antwerp in Belgium showed that paper straws — as well as those made of glass and bamboo — are coated in PFAS, aka "forever chemicals." Here's what to use ...

Trump signed an executive order forbidding the federal government to purchase paper straws. He’s also tasking the executive branch with developing a “National Strategy to End the Use of Paper ...