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 ...

Word on the street is that McDonald’s new straws don’t hit like they used to. This is troubling news considering how good the ...

McDonald's introduced thinner, clear plastic straws across the U.S. Here's why they aren't popular, and how they can make ...

Fearless green crusader and fast food behemoth McDonald’s is keeping up the good fight against the environmental menace of … plastic straws ... drinking straw — but diners aren’t ...

Pubs are calling time on "wasteful" plastic drinking straws, which campaigners say are used only once yet take centuries to decompose. So is it time to refuse the straw and get used to sipping our ...

The Stuart City Commission voted in favor of lifting a four-year-old ban on plastic straws during a meeting Monday night.

The City Commission voted Monday to repeal a four-year-old ban on commercial use of plastic straws, intended to protect the ...

The chain recently began rolling out new clear plastic straws at locations across ... of her attempting to insert the clear straw into a drink, only for it to crumple. The user, who uses the ...

FUKUI--Drinking straws that are touted as being true to the original meaning of the word are becoming popular here amid the eco-friendly trend for using less plastic. “These ones are so shiny ...

INA, Nagano Prefecture--Too much plastic in the ocean was the last straw for the city agriculture promotion center here. So, the center is working to spread the use of plastic-free drinking ...

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 ...