More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States, most for 30 minutes or less, according to ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to ...

The Montgomery County Council unanimously voted Tuesday to approve a proposed near-complete ban on the use of plastic ...

Paper straws are, objectively, the worst. There’s the race against the clock to use them before they turn to mush, the ...

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they "don't work" and don't last very long. Instead he wants the government to exclusively move to ...

At the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one of Scotland's biggest plastic problems ... by a third and increase recycling of single-use drinks containers to 90%. Lorna Slater, the ...

He said: "Plastic water bottles are a single use item that get discarded in unimaginable ... Mr Lord said he believed a "fair proportion" of the litter is from "ship crews illegally dumping ...