Starbucks announced Monday that it will phase out plastic straws from its stores worldwide by 2020. The decision will impact over 28,000 locations and may eliminate more than 1 billion straws per year ...

Light as a feather and seemingly ubiquitous, plastic drinking straws tip the scales as environmental villains—clogging landfills, choking marine life and lasting for years. In the face of local ...

Starbucks has officially gone strawless! Two years after the coffee chain announced plans to phase out its signature green plastic straws by 2020, the sustainable initiative has come to fruition. By ...

A packaging consultant is challenging President Donald Trump's reelection campaign's claims that its branded plastic straws are recyclable. The president made news earlier this month when his campaign ...

You might know Adrian Grenier from Entourage (or as the world’s least supportive boyfriend in The Devil Wears Prada). Or you might just know him as that celebrity who’s obsessed with straws. The ...

Starbucks is exchanging its iconic green straws for recyclable strawless lids. The newer tops were modeled after the lids the coffee company has used on their hot drinks. They will have a drinking ...

Your frappuccinos will never be the same. Starting in 2020, Starbucks plans to wipe out all of the plastic straws from its 28,000 international stores in order to contribute to the universal effort to ...