"One of the major issues with plastic straws is that they are too small and lightweight to be captured in modern recycling equipment." We reached out to various recycling plants across North ...

Consider the plastic straw: Starbucks committed to phasing ... but a larger chunk of plastic is more likely to make it through a recycling plant. The same idea—doing without—could apply ...

These straws are not recyclable because they are so small. They take at least 200 years to decompose. President Trump has resurrected the ghost of climate scepticism.

Paper can be renewable and pasta straws are biodegradable even if you just throw them away.” So while it might be tempting to look at advanced technologies for a solution, the true core of going ...