How did paper straws come about? The modern drinking straw was invented by American inventor Marvin C. Stone in 1888, and his patented version was actually made out of paper and wax. As plastic ...

Plastic straws aren’t recyclable and aren’t biodegradable, like paper straws. They first gained popularity in the 2010s, after a video of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck up its nose gained ...

Under former President Joe Biden, the Department of Interior in 2022 ordered a phase-out by 2032 of all single-use plastic products ‒ such as plastic straws, food and beverage containers and ...

Cutting plastic also required planning out my meals — so I wouldn’t be tempted to grab fast food out and about. Plus, I had to haul a heavy tote bag of containers everywhere. Sometimes, the ...

Paper bags tend to require more energy to produce than plastic ones. A 2011 study by Britain’s Environment Agency, for example, concluded that you’d have to reuse a paper bag three times to ...

Trump’s crusade against paper straws is nothing new. His 2020 presidential campaign branded them as “liberal” and sold nearly half a million dollars worth of Trump-branded plastic straws.