Later, in 2015, a video of a marine biologist extracting a plastic straw out of a turtle’s nostril helped turbochange the anti-straw movement, catalyzing plastic straw bans around the world ...

Repeat after me: If a straw dissolves in liquid, then so do your hopes of enjoying a beverage with one. But if ever there was a time for the president to take a stage dive, it's now.

Skipping the straw, they say, not only helps reduce the amount of trash that winds up in landfills and the environment, but also could lower people’s exposure to microplastics — tiny fragments ...