From seaweed to sugarcane, companies race to find the next great plastic replacement Small businesses are scrambling to meet the demand from consumers who want an alternative to plastic straws.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: You've probably seen this video. That's a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle's nose. The video went viral in 2015 sparking a public ...

Drinking straws are one of the tools in columnist Dagmar Munn's arsenal to combat dysphagia while living with ALS.

We use an estimated 8.5 billion plastic straws every year in the UK. Now, the government is bringing in new rules to restrict their availability from April 2020. Plastic drinks stirrers will be ...

But even with more than eleven years of experience under my belt, I have to say, it did catch me off guard when I recently developed a strong kleptomaniacal urge to swipe plastic straws from my ...

Suddenly, I started noticing just how many of the plastic straws I'd pilfered from the office or coffee shops were strewn across my apartment. I used to recycle plastic straws but maddeningly ...

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It’s safe to say that the global campaign against the use of plastic straws reached fever pitch this year, with many companies and people choosing to ditch plastic straws in favour of paper ones.

Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from its stores worldwide by 2020 to reduce environmental plastic pollution, the company says. The coffee retailer will phase out single-use straws from its ...

Politicians in Seattle and San Francisco are being cheered on by some voters for their recent bans on plastic straws, having already banned plastic bags years ago. California in 2016 became the ...

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