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The Executive Order came just months after the Biden administration announced plans in July to phase out single-use plastic ... to bring back common sense, end the use of paper straws, and restore ...

Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make drinkers happy, there are many alternatives to returning to ...

Paper straws are out at the Department of Justice. Also banned: Dijon mustard, flimsy paper napkins, and the word ...

Plastic straws are making a comeback. Karrie Laughton has two words for them: Suck it. The co-owner of paper-straw company Roc Paper Straws put the phrase on a sipper she designed last month ...

This company says its straws are a big upgrade from soggy paper straws without the environmental impacts of regular plastic.

with many companies and people choosing to ditch plastic straws in favour of paper ones. But are paper straws really the eco-friendly alternative they claim to be? Chung Shan-shan, the director of ...

Though they pollute oceans and harm marine life, Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order this month to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws. He declared paper ...

As part of its efforts to be more eco-friendly, roughly five years ago Starbucks Japan switched from plastic straws to paper ones. However, consumers haven’t been happy with paper straws in general, ...

Paper straws do cost more to manufacture than plastic ... Opponents fear that reverting back to plastic straws will open the floodgates for rolling back more environmental policies and enable people ...

Among the many things that my Administration is having to roll back ... plastic straws in full-service restaurants, unless customers request them. Democratic states have also touted the use of ...