Lara Trump made an Instagram post slamming paper straws on November 3, which coincided with the midterm elections. The ...

A South Korean government-commissioned life cycle assessment found paper straws scored 6.33 times higher than plastic on a ...

A recent government-commissioned study in South Korea has found that paper straws may be worse for the environment than ...

Paper straws may boast a "greener" image, but a new South Korean study says they're worse on paper than old-school plastic. A ...

Acidification is the metric scientists and researchers use to measure pH changes in soil and ocean water. Because paper ...

A South Korean government study found plastic straws did less environmental harm than paper straws in most categories. Paper ...

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New research from South Korea has revealed an unexpected finding: paper straws may actually cause more environmental harm ...

"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, ...

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This scientific study might be the last straw. A damning study out of South Korea has revealed that paper straws might ...

Conventional plastic straws had the smallest impact in 10 of the 16 categories, including climate change, acidification, ...