Paper straws have become almost omnipresent in restaurants, bars, and fast food outlets as the hospitality industry has rushed to abandon plastic in response to consumer backlash. According to Data ...

Straw remnants have been ingeniously repurposed into green materials used in the production of furniture. At the foot of ...

Moving away from single-use plastics, including straws, had been the policy of President Joe Biden’s administration. It cited ...

Then-President Joe Biden had vowed in July of 2024 to ‘phase out’ plastics in federal food service, with the end of procurement due in 2027.

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Friday that, in the coming week, he would be signing an executive order to make the federal government go back to using plastic straws.

However, with the decline in rural populations and the increasing prevalence of gas stoves and mechanization in rural China, straw has been relegated to waste. However, in Jingmen, Hubei province ...

a plastic straw. The World Wildlife Fund has warned that straws—and other plastic waste—pose risks to animals if not properly disposed of, with many marine animals mistaking them for food.

President Trump has signed an executive order decrying the "irrational campaign against plastic straws" and directing federal ...

At the time, the Biden White House said that an increase in plastic production and waste has been “littering our ocean, ...