With The Stranger’s 2025 Climate Issue upon us, many of our (very real and not at all fake) readers have been asking us important questions about environmentalism, and how the many rules of reducing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There’s a huge contrast between billionaires travelling by private jet while the rest of us drink with soggy paper straws," say ...

Thirty thousand people have signed a petition to get rid of the new straws, which have been brought in over concerns about plastic pollution. {{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} Many claim the paper ones are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sitting at a McDonald’s in Heathrow Airport, waiting for our family’s flight to Boston, I watched my daughter wrestle with a soggy ...

As bans on single-use plastics expand globally, paper and bioplastic straws have become common replacements. Yet, consumer complaints about their performance are frequent. A new study by researchers ...

In the fight against pollution, several regions in the U.S. have banned the use of plastic straws. Alternative materials exist, but most options are either too expensive to scale up, go limp in drinks ...

Since the conflict between Iran and Israel-US began after missile strikes on Iran on February 28, social media has been buzzing with reactions, debates and memes. As tensions continue to escalate ...

Ashley: Happy Thursday, everyone. Today we have funding news, an eMerge Americas update and a look at a local company trying to solve a big challenge: Eliminating single-use plastics. Let's get to it.

The plastic straw is slowly disappearing from Kolkata’s café tables, but what’s replacing it is sparking its own debate. Paper straws turn soggy, metal ones feel uncomfortable, glass doesn’t quite ...