It’s the last straw. Restaurants, cafes and bars across the city are ditching plastic straws in a bid to be more environmentally friendly. Eco-activists, including actor Adrian Grenier, have been ...

Starbucks will stop using disposable plastic straws by 2020, eliminating more than 1 billion straws a year, the retailer announced Monday. Instead, Starbucks, which has more than 28,000 stores ...

Between the ages of 5 and 65 — a roughly 22,000-day period — the average American will use 38,000 disposable straws. At least, that’s what the office of Gov. John Hickenlooper decreed in 2013 when he ...

UrthPact – the leader in compostable foodservice ware manufacturing, announces the addition of a black straw to its disposable straw product line. Made from plants, PHA is produced through natural ...

Although she hates plastic, 71-year-old Jacqueline Williams drinks from plastic disposable straws every day. She doesn’t have much of a choice. “I can’t swallow fast enough, my neck was broken,” said ...

Summer is here and so are frozen daiquiris, iced lattes, lemonades, hibiscus mint teas, root-beer floats, frozen margs, Arnold Palmers, chocolate milk, nitro cold brews, bloody marys, Capri Suns, ...

Prince George’s County, Maryland, has become the latest community in the D.C. area to approve a ban on disposable plastic straws. The new bill bans restaurants and other businesses from handing out ...

Los Angeles restaurants will face new restrictions on handing out plastic straws under an ordinance approved Friday. The City Council voted 12 to 0 for the new rules, which will go into effect for ...

The Portland City Council officially voted Wednesday to curtail the use of disposable straws and utensils, making them available only upon request. This is the latest effort to reduce plastic waste in ...

A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. All this to ...

Starting today, if you want a plastic straw or disposable fork with your food or drink order in Portland, you’ll have to ask for it or go without. The city’s policy to limit the use of plastic straws ...