straws and packaging typically are not. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Plastics are so arduous to recycle that many environmental advocates believe the only way forward is to ...

"One of the major issues with plastic straws is that they are too small and lightweight to be captured in modern recycling equipment." We reached out to various recycling plants across North ...

Widespread confusion about the recycling requirements means that many sustainably minded people toss items in the single-stream bin that don’t belong there.

Paper straws, like paper cups, are often coated with plastics such as polyethylene or acrylic resin. This makes them difficult to recycle but also raises the risk of pollution. Some paper straws ...

recycling and reuse. The environment is littered with single-use plastic food and beverage containers — water bottles, takeout containers, coffee lids, straws and shopping bags. Every year ...

recycling and reuse. White House staff secretary Will Scharf, who presented the executive order to Trump, told him the push for paper straws has cost the government and private industry “an ...

Consider the plastic straw: Starbucks committed to phasing ... but a larger chunk of plastic is more likely to make it through a recycling plant. The same idea—doing without—could apply ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over single-use plastics.