It means small plastic items like straws ... From adding a flourish to a cocktail to apparently making a drink taste better, straws have been commonplace in almost every restaurant and bar ...

Bendable straws When bendable straws were first made in the 1940s, they were a boon in health-care settings to help patients drink without sitting up. Plastic bendable straws have become the safe ...

A check found plastic straws being given out at most of the drink stalls, with one operator quickly switching to a paper ...

One of the world's leading makers of single-use plastic drinking straws has told Radio 5 Live that the development of more environmentally friendly alternatives is "stuck". John Sidanta ...

First, the drink should be stirred ... In the United States, about 500 million plastic straws are used every day. As a result ...

KFC will stop handing out plastic straws and lids at all of its stores in Hong Kong and Macau for dine-in customers starting from Thursday, becoming one of the first major fast-food chains in the ...

Today, on January 3rd we celebrate the Paper drinking straw day. Can you imagine drinking your favorite beverage or soft ...

One study out of the University of Antwerp in Belgium showed that paper straws — as well as those made of glass and bamboo — ...

Americans toss 500 million plastic straws in the trash. That's enough to fill 125 school buses, or circle the Earth 2.5 times ...

Some might argue that National Drinking Straw Day is among the worst offenders. Why celebrate a product many see as the poster child for single use plastic pollution? But the humble drinking straw has ...