It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans. The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the stark-white boat deck.

"How do you drink a milkshake without a straw?" It is a question the city of Washington will soon face after deciding, in the interest of the environment, to ban plastic drinking straws—an almost ...

Straws are just one way we can play a part in the global effort to reduce the consumption of single-use plastics. Plastic straws have garnered a bad rap over the past few years. As Insider previously ...

A plastic straw might look simple and convenient, but not many people know that its journey is contributing great harm to the environment, especially to oceans. A plastic straw might look simple and ...

Organic Waste Systems (OWS), based in Belgium, conducted a home compostable study, concluding that the phade straw completely deteriorates in nine weeks. It's pictured here at the start of the study ...

The days where plastic straws and their wrappers litter the countertops of restaurants, coffee shops and fast food joints are nearing the end. With several governments, like Australia and the U.K., ...

The plastic straw is one of the casualties in the war on plastics that has even some ardent plastiphobes rethinking their all-or-nothing dogma. If you’ve ever tried to use a paper straw to enjoy your ...

A decade ago, a video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril went viral, spurring a wave of activism aimed at curtailing plastic pollution. The disposable plastic straw became the ...

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2018 was, without a doubt, the year plastic straws died. The war picked up steam starting in 2015 after a YouTube video surfaced of a plastic straw being removed from the nostril of a sea turtle. Ever ...

They’re grasping for straws. Devout paper straw enthusiasts are speaking out as public opinion about the environmentally friendly sipper shifts to favor plastic. Last month, President Donald Trump ...