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A new White House report titled the National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws details the Trump administration's ...

In cities that use single-stream recycling, consumers put all of their recyclable materials − paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and metal − into a single bin. Once collected, the mixed ...

An curved arrow pointing right. With bamboo-based products on the rise, we wanted to see how they compared to their plastic and paper counterparts. We went to Taiwan and China for a behind-the ...

The paper straw didn’t regain prominence until plastic straws were pushed aside for environmental concerns. In 2024, as President Joe Biden’s term drew to a close, his administration announced ...

with many companies and people choosing to ditch plastic straws in favour of paper ones. But are paper straws really the eco-friendly alternative they claim to be? Chung Shan-shan, the director of ...

Papermakers are viewing the anti-plastic trend as a golden opportunity to pitch “eco-friendly” paper products and rebound from depleted demand for publications and other printed articles.

As United States (US) president Donald Trump slammed paper straws (an alternative to plastic), the debate between the two continues. While the push to ban plastic straws stems from a genuine ...