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.

Plastic straws have become a point of contention. Many cities and states have banned them because they end up in landfills, city streets (and sometimes even in sea turtles’ nostrils). But the bans ...

I've always loved a good straw, and for most of my life, that has meant loving plastic straws. Cheap, easy and always available, they never let me down. But straws have become a flash point in the ...

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 ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President ...

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 ...

Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, which buys more ...