The packaging major is collaborating with a synchrotron radiation laboratory to conduct experiments on paper straws, determining how materials respond to different environmental factors, explains ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Paper straws have become almost omnipresent in restaurants, bars, and fast food outlets as the hospitality industry has rushed to abandon plastic in ...

Environmentalists condemned the straw order. "People hate seeing plastic pollution hurt wildlife and trash the environment," said David Derrick of the Center for Biological Diversity. (Calla Kessler / ...

The bill would preempt local governments from enacting single-use plastic bans without adding environmental requirements for alternatives.

Paper straws are displayed at the Bar & Restaurant Expo and World Tea Expo in Las Vegas on March 29, 2023. - David Becker/Getty Images Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, ...

Tetra Pak has created a new paper straw that can be used with its cartons, as it increases efforts to deliver a package made entirely from plant-based materials. Made from FSC-certified paper and ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Packaging leader DS Smith is pushing ahead in exploring outside-the-box options, testing materials typically seen in gardens, parks and beaches. In doing so, the company is ...

President Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for the return of plastic straws and doing away with paper ones. “We’re going back to plastic straws. These things don’t work,” Mr. Trump told ...

However, were their replacement, those paper straws, actually effective? If it weren't for the environment, few people would ...

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ineffective and "disgustingly dissolves in your mouth," he was widely criticized for ...

How to deal with plastic and metal straws? When I was a child, and I am now 78 and counting, we had paper straws. They worked great. We used to get milk in glass bottles instead of plastic jugs of ...

New York (CNN) — Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, ...