Imagine yourself sitting at the most Instagrammable cafe, ordering a "cool-sounding" drink that looks as good as it tastes. You pick up the glass, gently swirl the straw, and clink, it's a glass straw ...

Light as a feather and seemingly ubiquitous, plastic drinking straws tip the scales as environmental villains—clogging landfills, choking marine life and lasting for years. In the face of local ...

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A local filmmaker is sounding the alarm on single-use plastic straws. Linda Booker's award-winning documentary now has more people saying "it's their last straw." Booker, from Chatham County, says a ...

Humans for millennia siphoned the liquid pleasures of life between their lips through a hollow piece of grass — through straw. It took a 19th-century American entrepreneur, a Civil War veteran from ...

“Eco-friendly” paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. In the first analysis of its kind in Europe, and only the second in the world, ...

'Eco-friendly' paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. "Eco-friendly" paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic ...