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 ...

Learn more› By Anna Perling We’re planning to do a new round of testing of reusable straws ... and flexible bristles). And finally, we tried punching the straws through plastic to-go-cup ...

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 ...

As much as I admire flexible plastic straws, I also have fond memories of paper straws. The kind with red stripes. Yes, they could crush in a lunch bag, or collapse while drinking, and you would ...

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.

“We want to make sure it’s understood by food service businesses that the ban does not apply to disposable flexible plastic drinking straws when needed by customers due to medical or physical ...

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 ...

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 prevailing notion says flexible straws were ... mouths on others’ drinking glasses. Finally in the 1960s, restaurants offered a new invention: a disposable plastic straw.

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 ...

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 ...

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.