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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...