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 ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

Here's How The White House did not respond to Grist’s request for comment. Later, in 2015, a video of a marine biologist extracting a plastic straw out of a turtle’s nostril helped turbochange ...

The Federal government is directed to stop purchasing paper straws and ensure they are no longer provided within Federal buildings. The Order requires the development of a National Strategy to End the ...

There’s a better case to be made, even for the plastics industry, that an executive order defending plastic straws is not what’s needed. A more serious order with the weight of the White House ...

A somewhat misleading statistic that plastic straws account for a mere 0.025% ... official press release has now been removed from the White House website). This was several years after the ...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that around 380 MT of plastic waste is produced globally ...

A somewhat misleading statistic that plastic straws account for a mere 0.025% ... official press release has now been removed from the White House website). This was several years after the ...