The Safety Straw is a straw that is designed to protect against “date rape” drugs by detecting them in beverages.

After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” straw that he manufactures in Woodstock, Illinois, and sells to more ...

The Tampa Bay area restaurant supply distributor serves roughly 1,500 bars, restaurants and hotels from Homosassa to Sarasota and only has one regular customer that purchases paper straws.

Andrew Harnik/Getty; Getty President Donald Trump is looking to end the nationwide use of paper straws. He signed an executive order on Monday, Feb. 10, encouraging the U.S. government and public ...

The order doesn’t bar other companies from buying paper straws; it just asks for a vague “national strategy to end the use of” the product. But business owners like Spinelli say it’s sent ...