Two Oregon high schoolers have teamed up with their grandfather to create a biodegradable drinking straw. They say the seaweed-based invention is a step toward more sustainable alternatives to ...

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, ...

Fearless green crusader and fast food behemoth McDonald’s is keeping up the good fight against the environmental menace of … plastic straws. Yes, the chain is moving nationally to a “sustainable” ...