Plastic straws are often replaced by paper straws, which are nonfunctional, use chemicals that may carry risks to human health, are more expensive to produce than plastic straw ...

The paper straw, Guy Spinelli was sure, would be the way of the future. After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” ...

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ineffective and "disgustingly dissolves in your mouth," he was widely criticized for ...

The US government has scrapped paper straws to go back to plastic. So why are the plastic variety restricted in many ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to en ...

Though they pollute oceans and harm marine life, Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order this month to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws. He declared paper ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has declared war. On paper straws. “These things don’t work,” he complained from the Oval Office on Monday while asserting that U.S. policy now aims to ...

The executive order Trump signed will undercut the former administration’s 2022 initiative to phase out single-use plastics, including straws, containers and bottles, from federal buildings by 2032 ...

The move towards paper straws was a refreshing direction in environmental preservation, in that it was initiated locally and by producers, not through legislation. Donald Trump recently surprised ...

Paper straws sit on shelving in a warehouse at Guy’s E. Paper in Woodstock. The company is owned by 75-year-old Guy Spinelli who put his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” straw ...