Donald Trump has a problem with paper straws. So now the United States government does, too. A trivial matter, until it isn't ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday pushing for a return to plastic drinking straws, saying their impact on marine life was limited and that paper ones favoured by ...

Single-use plastic drinking straws are polluting beaches ... Concerns: An unexpected, potentially negative aspect of the flexible silicone straw is a distinct, rubbery texture that some may ...

assessed a variety of drinking straws, which showed that most contained PFAs used "in order to make these materials water-repellent." The researchers tested straws made of plastic, paper ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday encouraging both the federal government and American consumers to buy plastic drinking straws — a formal rebuke of former President Joe ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back ...

The backlash against plastic straws has left consumers searching ... put the number of disposable drinking straws used every day in the US at 500 million. The validity of that statistic has ...

researchers analyzed the PFA concentrations of 39 brands of drinking straws, which were comprised of five materials: paper, bamboo, glass, stainless steel, and plastic. They found that paper ...

Although disposable plastic straws ... the lignin-based straws The resulting bioplastic self-sealed along the seam, forming a long, skinny tube that was cut into individual flexible straws.

A growing number of countries, including the UK and Belgium, have banned sale of single-use plastic products, including drinking straws, and plant-based versions have become popular alternatives.

LONDON — So-called “eco-friendly” paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals and may not be better for the environment than plastic versions, researchers have ...

The scientists looked at 39 brands of drinking straws made from five different materials: plastic, stainless steel, bamboo, glass and paper. Within this cohort, scientists detected PFAS in 27 of them.