The president claimed plastic straws won’t “affect a shark very much.” But he’d previously declared, “I hope all the sharks die.” ...

Later, in 2015, a video of a marine biologist extracting a plastic straw out of a turtle’s nostril helped turbochange the anti-straw movement, catalyzing plastic straw bans around the world ...

Anti–plastic straw policies started appearing in the early 2010s and really took off toward the end of the decade when large blue cities and a few states either banned their distribution or ...

who is also the founder of the Last Plastic Straw, an anti-plastic straw campaign. Most of those paper straws with toxins are imported from China, she notes. Nuñez said she has tested paper ...

"What I found was, even the bad press was good press," Nuñez says. When people were bashing her anti-plastic-straw crusade, she saw it as an opportunity to talk about the growing problem of ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

Later, in 2015, a video of a marine biologist extracting a plastic straw out of a turtle’s nostril helped turbochange the anti-straw movement, catalyzing plastic straw bans around the world ...