If, like me, you’ve been trying to be more environmentally conscious, you know that cutting back on single-use plastics (or not using them at all) is a good place to start. Maybe that means bringing ...

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Plastic straws have become a point of contention. Many cities and states have banned them because they end up in landfills, city streets (and sometimes even in sea turtles’ nostrils). But the bans ...

Right now, Americans use about 500 million plastic straws a day, most of which end up in the ocean. In an effort to cut that number down, two months ago, the New York City Council introduced ...

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Two jars of coffee with metal straws. - Yulia Lisitsa/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Straws have become a complicated topic in recent years. The European Union ...

Reusable straws seem like the perfect answer to reducing our single-use plastic issue in the United States, but there's just one problem-they're actually really hard to clean. After quick Google ...

When people make the switch to reusable straws, it is usually with the best intentions—specifically, cutting down on the amount of landfill garbage they produce everyday. They’re great the first time ...

I was very sorry to hear about the British woman who died after impaling herself on a reusable metal drinking straw — and not just because it sounds like a terrible way to die. This single strange and ...